File This Under "Just for Fun"

Ok, I know, I know, it's ridiculous that stores transition wholly to Christmas the minute Halloween is over, but, you know, the last few years, so do I. I start really thinking about Christmas gifts (not just the all-year-long-looking-for-bargains shopping, but actively, consciously thinking about what gifts to get for people and making lists of all the people we exchange with) and I start planning out holiday festivities and looking forward to holiday baking and anticipating what will happen when, etc.

So we find ourselves in the situation where, two days after Halloween, we have already played "Frosty the Snowman" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" songs on YouTube for R, and R put together her first Christmas list. This one is really more along the "Just for Fun" category because we only did this because I was fishing for something to keep her from throwing a huge tantrum, and "being good for Santa" did the trick.

Here's the list she dictated to me:

Helmet
Bicycle
Gum*
Christmas Apples**
Grapes
Shirt
Fork
Ring
Books

*This one was motivated, I think, by a friend of hers who gave her a bunch of gum in a Halloween goody bag at school. We let her chew 2 pieces, and this was the first time she has ever had gum.

**I have no idea where this came from.