Amanda Kloots and Her Son Elvis Celebrate Christmas in South Carolina with Presents and a Pillow Fight

Amanda Kloots is revealing what her Christmas looks like this year.

The Talk alum, 42, took to Instagram on Dec. 25 to share photos of her family getting in the holiday spirit. In a series of images, Kloots and her 5-year-old son Elvis can be seen exploring South Carolina with her parents and sister, having a pillow fight and opening gifts on Christmas morning.

“Merry Christmas from the lowcountry! @dunlinauberge,” she captioned the post.

Another sweet snap showed Elvis writing a letter to Santa, which read: “Dear Santa, I am a good boy.”

Kloots also documented Elvis enjoying a soak in the hotel bathtub, him at a diner and the two of them smiling in front of the resort.

“Best gift is spending Christmas with you ❤️,” her sister, Anna, wrote.

This marks Kloots’ fifth Christmas without her late husband Nick Cordero, who died from complications after contracting COVID-19 in July 2020. On Elvis’ 5th birthday in June, the dancer remembered Cordero in a post of throwback shots.

“June 10, 2019 At 6:41am Elvis Eduardo Cordero was born after 56 hours of labor!!! Happy Birthday to Elvis!” the proud mom captioned the post.

She added, “I’m super nostalgic today so forgive all the photos that might be posted. I don’t think you ever feel as close to your partner as you do on the day your child is born. It’s a crazy and beautiful moment that I’ll never forget.”

“Nick was the cutest new dad… Elvis spent the first two days in the NICU and until I was strong enough to go he was running there every two minutes and taking every friend and family member to see his new son! He was SO PROUD. ❤️❤️❤️ How time flies and so much changes but we will always have this day and these memories,” she concluded.

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That same month, Kloots opened up to PEOPLE about how Elvis has been processing his father’s death and how she answers his tough questions, calling it a “battle of emotions.”

As she recalled a specific example from Cordero’s birthday celebration last year, she said, “This is the best way to sum up how he is understanding things right now.”

She likes to “plan a celebration on that day” and sing “Happy Birthday to Dada” with a cake, Kloots shared. For what would have been his 45th birthday, Kloots said Elvis asked if Cordero would be joining the steakhouse dinner they planned in his honor.

Noting that she is open with Elvis about what happened to his dad, Kloots said, “He knows he has a dad. He knows that his dad isn’t alive. And he’s very frank about ‘my Dada is dead.’ He will say [that]. Because I’ve been very clear about that. I didn’t want to be — ‘He’s in the clouds.’ ”

“I believe that Nick watches over us every single day and is with Elvis at school and with us now… But cognitively, I don’t think he’s fully aware of it right now,” she continued, adding “It’s coming, though.”