For a solid at least 6 weeks my little, pink bow wearing, doll playing prissy pants girl has answered the SAME thing every time she's asked, "What do you want for Christmas?" And here's her answer:
I finally taped it so that no one would think I'm lying. A skeleton. A SKELETON! What little girl asks for a skeleton for Christmas?? We're pretty sure it stems back to a Halloween costume her buddy wore that she was apparently enamored with. Who knows. The funny thing is, we went to see Ol' Saint Nick at the mall: (here's a picture of the picture....side note: forget trying to get your big kids to dress up for this event. I saw all of these other parents with boys in little bow ties and khaki pants and whatnot. I'd be a happy gal if I could just get Cade to NOT wear wind pants every day of his life...sigh.) Anyhoo, the picture:
So, after months of "skeleton" Princess Petunia climbed up in this strange man's lap and when he asked her in his deep Santa voice, "Well, what would yoooou like for Christmas, Little Girl?" She stares up at him and in the most sugar pie voice says, "A baaaby dollll". WHAT!!!!???? Where did that come from? Crazy kid. She's gettin' nothing but skeletons from me.
On a funny side note, this Santa was fantastic. He called Bobby and me over while the kids were still sitting there and let us know that he can't bring everyone electronics but the children would be very happy with the things that he did bring. And he added, "I let them know that the most important thing is not gifts but our health and that we have moms and dads that love us very much" which I thought was so nice of him to say. The funny part is that as we were walking away Grant pipes in and says with such a confused face, "I just don't get why Santa said Christmas wasn't about presents but it was about his elves....what's up with that?" To which I cracked up and said, "Your health, son, your hhhhealllth. Not elves!" I'm so glad I got that cleared up!! Kids never cease to make me laugh:)
