Dear Santa,

Today we decided it was time to start asking Payton what she might want to ask Santa for at Christmas, and tried to explain that she'd need to "write" a letter to him. The overall theme is apparently PINK. She started by whispering very excitedly, "pink princess" to her daddy with her eyes all aglow. We're still not 100% certain if she actually wants him to bring a princess, or a princess doll or to make her look like a princess. We're gonna go with the look like approach. From the pink princess we moved on to a pink doll. Daddy had enough of the pink talk and suggested that she might like a football, to which she replied, "Later Daddy." Guess that will have to wait for another year's list. She also added Marmar & Papa in there, but thank goodness we kind of let that one go because she gets very excited when she starts talking about them and can't understand our inability to produce them on demand.

So I thought that maybe she would have some ideas for Parker, and her suggestion was, of course, a pink doll. Jason asked if maybe Parker would like another color of doll, and she thought that Parker would like purple, and then after a moment decided that Parker would like a brown doll. Hum, not sure about where that came from, but she was very determined that Parker would in fact like to receive a brown doll. Well Parker, we'll have to see what Santa comes up with.

As always, Jason was very good about trying to ask her for more detail on her ideal dolls, but as much as she was willing to share was that her's should be pink and Parker's should be brown. Poor Parker, she better learn to talk soon or Big Sis is gonna give her all the Misfit Toys from the island!

As many conversations end these days, we had a grand finale of tears. She just couldn't understand why she couldn't have Christmas presents RIGHT NOW. Explaining that Christmas is not here yet didn't help, she demanded it get here now. How are we gonna get through the next 4 weeks!

This photo was from last weekend, Payton's fake smile but still kinda cute.