This year Dakota was old enough to pick out some things that were associated with Christmas. Not that she knew that these particular items had anything to do with Christmas, but she knew that some things that were "out for Christmas" were not normally sitting out. This water globe was one of them. I had it sitting on the television and one day when we were walking around at a time when I actually had her in my arms (probably because she had been crying or something) she noticed this water globe. I am thinking I received this from Deborah one year but I am not sure. It is a Coca-Cola Santa Claus water globe with a train that moves around it when it is wound up and it plays the Coca-Cola song, It's the Real Thing. (I think, come to think of it, I am not sure that is the name of it!) Anyway, every time she was over here at the house, at least 3-4 times I had to pick her up and show her the globe with the snow. I would have to turn it up-side down to get the "snow" going of course. There was also a smaller water globe I got one year for Christmas from a girl at work, but the snow did not do as well as this snow did. She looked at it for the last time today when I was trying to soothe her before Natasha came to get her, before I finally gave up and took her to my bed and laid there with her on my chest where she was asleep in 3 minutes. After she and Allyssa left, I packed up all the christmas stuff and put it away until next year. Wonder if she is going to remember it then? Of course, I will always remember her little smile and face light up when I would pick her up to see it "snow".
Allyssa was caught up in her new portable DVD player all day. She took it to Stamps and More when me, mom, Dakota and Allyssa went today and she sit and entertained a little lady that was sitting in the "little room" that Eleanor has which has a table and a small couch in it. She was watching Barbie Rapunzel all day. Does not seem like she should be old enough to be so entertained by a tech gadget like the portable DVD but she is. I can hardly believe she will be six years old Monday. Where has the time gone? She usually comes to my scrapbook room when she comes over and today was not different. She asked me for some paper so she could "write" something. After about 5-10 minutes she came to the living room and told Papa she put a note on his door to come and see it. So we went to his computer room and she had wrote, "Papa, I love you". She had done this all by herself, she did not even ask me how to spell any of it. I asked her today what she would miss about being five years old, (I was trying to get her answers so I could do a scrapbook page on it), but she said she did not know. I am not sure whether she understood what I was asking or she just was not in the mood to think about it! I think I will try again later. They grow up way too fast....
