Well, as annoying as they can be, children also do cute things on a semi-regular basis.

As I mentioned, N apparently decided that Santa was a myth several weeks ago. However, as the time draws near, he is having second thoughts. This is without any adult prompting, at least that I'm aware of; we've been opaque in conversation about stocking-stuffers, but the only issue with Santa has been the insistance on getting a photo, which was explained as a family tradition. (There was no wishlist-whispering.)

Anyway, this evening N realized how to determine the truth of Santa's existance once and for all. He was going to leave out milk and cookies.

"If the milk and cookies are gone, then Santa must have taken them, which means he's real! If the cookies are still here, he's not real."

His evil uncle was content to leave it at that, but later his mother suggested to him that perhaps some person that was not Santa might come along and eat the cookies. N pondered this for a few moments, then made his mother promise that she wouldn't eat the cookies. Then he asked her to tell everyone else not to eat the cookies either.

Now I'm in kind of an ethical quandry. I don't want to intentionally deceive a child by telling him that there's a magical elf somewhere that makes stuff appear. Thinking along those lines leads to flipping houses in California. but on the other hand, this is really too funny to pass up.

So the adults had a huddle, and the current thinking is that when the stockings get stuffed, we'll take the cookies off the plate and put them back into the cookie jar. The jar is almost empty, so the re-addition should be quite noticible. We won't point it out if he doesn't notice, however.

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