Santa Claus

Well, I knew this day would be upon me sooner than later but, I really was pretty sure with Joe it was going to be later. Not the case though, last night we were coloring in an "Arthur" coloring book and Joe, out of the blue ask me if Santa was "real" or "pretend"? Being taken off guard, I put the question back to him and asked him what he thought, he said pretend! Well, I told him that if he wanted to get presents, he better believe in Santa. (probably not the best answer but thats all I could come up with at the time). Anyway, the subject was dropped and that was the end of it. Until this morning when he brought it up again. He told me that he thinks that the real Santa is pretend but that his Uncle Rudy is really Santa Claus. When mike asked him why Uncle Rudy is Santa he said "uncle Rudy makes smoke bombs so he must be Santa". Very interesting how Joe looks at things. Needless to say, Uncle Rudy is Joe's absolutely favorite person in the world and if he wants to believe that Uncle Rudy is Santa that's fine with me.