We went to Learn with Me on base last Friday and stumbled upon a breakfast with Santa! Sam wasn’t too sure about Santa at first but after a couple opportunities to chat with him he warmed up. We sang Christmas songs in Hawaiian with the kids and Auntie Carolyn. The Marines helping host the breakfast sang along, too. One of them knew songs in Hawaiian. I’m going to try to post and mp3 of one so you can hear it. They’re beautiful.

Afterwards we went and got our flu shot – Sam was so good about it. I went first and showed him that mommy smiled through the whole thing (which took only an instant this time). So the corpsman said he could have FIVE stickers if he managed to smile the whole time, too. He did – more like a grimace, but not a peep or cry! We talked about vaccines and germs and viruses, then he went home to give his Bear a shot, too.