Make Believe - or Not?

It was Petra's turn for a sleepover this past weekend. We had a picnic before the Sunday evening concert in the park, played Carcassonne, played with the paper dolls, had a breakfast of waffles with bananas and chocolate, coloured pictures, and, of course, did lots of pretending. At one point, we were pretending that we were going to church in the sleigh, but we had to hitch up horses, not Santa's reindeer. I informed her that if we were in Aunt Anne's home country of Finland, we would likely see reindeer pulling sleighs in the winter. Astonished, her mouth dropped open as she tried to absorb this information, and then exclaimed, " but NOT the FLYING kind!!"