Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Matthew got the part of Santa Claus in the 2nd grade play this year.  He really wanted a speaking part and was excited to try out, and even more excited when he got the part of Santa.  He found out back before Halloween that he got the part and I practiced his lines with him a lot.  Because of the baby being due during that time I was afraid I might forget about practicing his lines and then he'd be the one kid who didn't know his lines when it came time for the play.  I was also overly paranoid that I was going to completely forget about his play and forget to take him to it that day.  I kept asking Scott to remind me about the play.

See the video of Matthew's play HERE.  At about 22:25 you can see Scott get up to take Grant out.  We are famous!

 

Matthew got his lines memorized pretty quickly but we still went over them a lot.  And even though I have been very scatterbrained post-baby, I did not forget the night of the play.  So all was well.  Matthew goes by "Matt" this year at school because there was another Matthew G. in his class.  It's still weird to hear his teachers and classmates call him Matt.

 And here's Matthew in the big red Santa suit.  I think it was an adult suit, so he had to hike it up a few times, but it was still good.

 He insisted on bringing a pillow from home to make himself extra Santa like.

The school provided the suit and we provided the wig, beard and glasses.

I had to give the beard and wig a haircut because they had a ridiculous amount of white Santa hair.  After a little trim it was better.  Here's Matthew/Santa doing his crazy Santa dance during the performance.

Matthew had many lines, all of which he recited perfectly for the play.  Here he is saying some lines with Mrs. Claus.

 And Matthew and Mrs. Claus after the show

 Matthew and Anna

She was proud to be Santa's sister

I tried to take a close up picture of him.  Imagine this beard with about twice as much hair!!  It had a crazy amount of hair and long beard ringlets.  Those are gone now.  I think it looks better.  After I trimmed the wig I thought it looked a little too Ronald McDonald.  But the hat covers it most of the time.

A blurry picture of Santa and John.  John was afraid of him at first (it's a toddler's prerogative to be afraid of Santa) but then was only slightly weirded out when he realized it was Matthew.  Matthew did a great job in the play and had a lot of fun being a part of it.  And all the kids and parents wanted to take pictures with him after the show.  I should have brought candy canes for him to pass out!!