Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Saint Nick Goes To School

Now before you go on thinking I'm the only nut in the family...

And that I married a left-brained serious finance guy...


Let me break it down for ya.


Santa made his debut at YaoHua school for the first time ever.


The teachers kept saying "now the kids will know there really is a Santa, because we had a foreign (American) Santa visit us..."

..."and now they can never doubt!"

Really, how can they not love this jolly guy?


But it must be a cross-cultural international thing to yank on his beard and clothes. BTW, can you see Hunter's head in the above picture. Clue: he's the only brown-hair child. We will try to upload footage of what Hunter kept saying when Tim, er uh, Santa came in during lunch time.


T: "Suzanne, Tanner has no clue who I am. This is a crack up!"


Tanner still totally enthralled with Santa.
After a few seconds, he says: "DADDY?!"

13 comments:

Lynette said...

AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!!! He's always been a jolly ole soul!

Amber Grannis said...

Hahaha! That's super cute! The suit looks great, BTW. Santa came to our ward Christmas party last week. Haleigh was insistant that it was NOT the real Santa Claus! I guess she's got high standards. ;)

Gel said...

How fun! I bet Tim had a good time. The suit turned out great! Merry Christmas!!

Tami said...

This is awesome. I love that it's a white skinned Santa speaking chinese to them! So cool. He looks really convincable. It almost looks like that suit was specially made for him or something!! ,)

What a crack up that Tanner didn't know who he was. In years to come he's going to tell that story!

Rachel Doyle said...

He looks great in the Santa costume - what fun memories you will all have.

Thelma said...

I love these pictures. One year Adam dressed as Santa for a party. Emma was two and had no idea it was him. When she was a little older she saw the pictures and said, "Is the DAD?!"

Startling.

Emily Peterson said...

Tim, I am proud of you, Bro. I bet you had so much fun making those kids day! I love it! We miss you but hope you have a Merry Christmas!

Warren said...

That's awesome! Now, am I remembering this correctly that you guys had this costume made? If that's right, they did a really good job!

The Naylor Family said...

Tim looks great! Where did he get the suit? Can't believe that it took Tanner so long to recognize him! Sure wish I still had little "believers" at my house!
P.S. I LOVE the picture of you guys at the top of your blog all dressed up china-style. Really neaat!

The Naylor Family said...

Ooops -- missed the post of you and you friend at the tailor's getting Santa suits made ... how cool is that????

Annalisa said...

lol, tanner is really smart!

Anonymous said...

That's so much fun. Let's see how you spend your Chinese New Years!

tammy lau said...

That's funny.