How to make Santa real!

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My eldest son will be 4 in January and last year didn't really understand Christmas at all. He certainly didn't understand the Father Christmas concept! This year,I am trying to hype him up in order to get him feeling excited about him coming etc etc but keep balsing it up!
What did you tell your toddlers regarding whether Santa was going to be buying all of his presents as well as bringing them or just bringing all the ones that all of his friends and family have bought him or what???
Want him to feel the magic like I did and feel the excitement I did on Christmas Eve knowing he was coming to my house!

Advice please??

Got the link up at last-thanks for that!

I believed in Santa when i was little because my dad always wrote Santa's thank you note and I didn't know his handwriting. It's big swirly writing and just how I'd imagine Santa would write, even now!

My aunt used to make footprints that came down the chimney, up the staris and down again and leave red glitter on the bedside table of her DD and bits of red glitter by the mince pie etc that was left out for him.

This will the first year we do the santa thing properly with lottie. She won't get it but I want her to start remebering that's what happens every year rather than start doing it when she's 6! I'm so giddy excited abiut it all myself this year.

We do footprints out of flour and take a bite out of FC's mince pie and Rudolph's carrot. FC has a glass of either beer or sherry left out, too, but all of that gets drunk up. Hic.
I bought some sleigh bells last year to ring at bedtime on Christmas eve, but ds2 found them in mid-November and has been jangling them on and off ever since.

Has anyone mentioned taking him to a Santa's Grotto? He can see Santa then!

my friend's dad used to dress up as santa for his grandchildren. One Xmas eve , after a particularly heavy session on the mince pies and cooking sherry, he lurched into the house with a sack of toys- it was late and he was promptly attacked by the german shepherd. Friends DD's saw the dog attacking santa and were quite traumatised.

Noradsanta is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab.

We got the Dds in bed when he hit Moscow, DD1 couldn't sleep and I said "Look! He's in Paris, he'll be here in 5 minutes!" and she scuttled up to bed.

And I have to admit, I tracked his progress after they had gone to bed .

Fantastic site, and totally believable for smallies.

Out 2 have presents under the tree from Grandparents, aunts and uncles etc. Then they get a sack each of presents from Santa, and stockings.
Their are a lot of great christmas books out for kids to read beforehand, and some website have colour and print pages that are great.