Christmas is coming?

Three of Santa's reindeer made their way to our kitchen tonight - not sure what their names were?

Santa Claus's reindeer is a team of flying reindeer traditionally held to pull the sleigh of Santa Claus and help him deliver Christmas gifts. The commonly cited names of the reindeer are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder (or Donner), and Blitzen. They are based on those used in the 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (commonly called "The Night Before Christmas"), which is arguably the basis of reindeer's popularity as Christmas symbols, and in which Donner and Blitzen were originally called Donder and Blixem respectively. Traditionally this is read every Christmas Eve in our house but Calum is getting a bit bored by it all now.

The subsequent popularity of the Christmas song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" has led to Rudolph often joining the list. Yet Rudolph wasn't here tonight.