Singin' In The Rain

Oh, yes: for Christmas, Anna was completely dolphin-accessoried. Or, as she insists, blue whale-accessoried. At any rate, it takes her forever to walk anywhere with that umbrella. (Only partly because everyone stops her to tell her how cute she looks :)

And now some Christmas quotes:

-- Right before bed on the 24th, we decide to leave a snack for Santa. Not surprisingly, Daddy suggests cookies and milk.
Cookies and milk. Hmmnnnn. Basically Anna's two favorite food groups. I knew Santa was not going to get these without a fight. As in:
"I don't want to give him cookies! Give him fruit! And pineapple juice! and pears!"

-- Anna noticed a framed black & white photo of a child sitting on Santa's lap. I guessed that it was Uncle Wesley. Gwammy said, no, that was actually her when she was little. Anna looked at the photo for a moment, and then:
"Were you a boy or a girl?"

-- We finished dinner on Christmas Eve and Anna gave Gwampy a big hug. Gwampy was touched and told her "aw, what a sweet girl you are!". Even as Anna is realeasing the hug, she is turning towards me and saying "I want to go home now"...
That's what you call a whole lotta love and very little timing.

-- On the geography front, Anna and I started talking about New Hampshire (I think because that is where Ellen was for Christmas). Anna let me know that "New Hampshire is a young state--it is very little so it must be a baby".

But by far the best: Gwampy was playing cars with Anna. Anna decided to make patterns with the colors of the cars and began laying them all out. Gwampy looked at the cars in front of him and said "red and green! The colors of Christmas!"
(As an aside: Anna's favorite colors are blue and purple.)
Anna looked at her cars and then thought for a moment. Then she said:
- "And I have purple and blue, the colors of Hanukkah! And Mommy has purple and green, the colors of Kwanza!"

Who knew she knew the colors of Kwanza?