Holidays

Melina is just starting to learn about Halloween and Christmas. I think I've thoroughly confused her by reading her The Nightmare Before Christmas, which is about a Halloween skeleton that takes over Santa's job and botches it up. So now Melina probably thinks that Santa is a skeletal creature with ghost reindeer who brings little vampire toys to children. Anyway, the other day I told her that Santa brings toys to little girls and boys. "To me?" she said, excited. I think this will be a fun Christmas.

For Halloween, I bought some fake fur and my friend Sue helped me make a little cavegirl outfit. She tried it on yesterday and complained that it was itchy, so it may take some tweaking before I can get her to wear it. I don't think she knows yet that Halloween means candy, but she knows it means pumpkins. It will be a fun Halloween, too.