diff --git a/_packages/api/src/node/node.ts b/_packages/api/src/node/node.ts
index 6106f65517..fd59863928 100644
--- a/_packages/api/src/node/node.ts
+++ b/_packages/api/src/node/node.ts
@@ -625,6 +625,9 @@ export class RemoteNode extends RemoteNodeBase implements Node {
     get declarationList(): RemoteNode | undefined {
         return this.getNamedChild("declarationList") as RemoteNode;
     }
+    get declarations(): RemoteNode | undefined {
+        return this.getNamedChild("declarations") as RemoteNode;
+    }
     get default(): RemoteNode | undefined {
         return this.getNamedChild("default") as RemoteNode;
     }
diff --git a/_packages/api/src/node/protocol.ts b/_packages/api/src/node/protocol.ts
index 232e78441f..db97fcfac8 100644
--- a/_packages/api/src/node/protocol.ts
+++ b/_packages/api/src/node/protocol.ts
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ export const childProperties: Readonly<Partial<Record<SyntaxKind, readonly strin
     [SyntaxKind.CatchClause]: ["variableDeclaration", "block"],
     [SyntaxKind.LabeledStatement]: ["label", "statement"],
     [SyntaxKind.VariableStatement]: ["modifiers", "declarationList"],
+    [SyntaxKind.VariableDeclarationList]: ["declarations"],
     [SyntaxKind.VariableDeclaration]: ["name", "exclamationToken", "type", "initializer"],
     [SyntaxKind.Parameter]: ["modifiers", "dotDotDotToken", "name", "questionToken", "type", "initializer"],
     [SyntaxKind.BindingElement]: ["dotDotDotToken", "propertyName", "name", "initializer"],
diff --git a/internal/api/encoder/encoder.go b/internal/api/encoder/encoder.go
index 8bc3ca9563..d9536476e6 100644
--- a/internal/api/encoder/encoder.go
+++ b/internal/api/encoder/encoder.go
@@ -594,6 +594,9 @@ func getChildrenPropertyMask(node *ast.Node) uint8 {
 	case ast.KindVariableStatement:
 		n := node.AsVariableStatement()
 		return (boolToByte(n.Modifiers() != nil) << 0) | (boolToByte(n.DeclarationList != nil) << 1)
+	case ast.KindVariableDeclarationList:
+		n := node.AsVariableDeclarationList()
+		return (boolToByte(n.Declarations != nil) << 0)
 	case ast.KindVariableDeclaration:
 		n := node.AsVariableDeclaration()
 		return (boolToByte(n.Name() != nil) << 0) | (boolToByte(n.ExclamationToken != nil) << 1) | (boolToByte(n.Type != nil) << 2) | (boolToByte(n.Initializer != nil) << 3)