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December 23, 2004

Vengeful 4 year olds and the Holliday spirit

Alesia, from Santa central...

OK, the holiday spirit of giving and generosity has hit its peak at the Holliday house (and don’t make any stupid jokes about Happy Hollidays – been there, done that. Although I heard about a poor woman named Merry Christmas on NPR this morning – how badly would THAT suck??)

My daughter has turned into the evil demon of Christmas. So she’s going to be 5 next month and was once a darling, angelic, adorable little girl.

For about five minutes. Then it all went bad.

[HEY – before I keep blathering, if you have kids, go to watch NORAD track Santa all day Christmas Eve at their site. It’s totally cool and a wonderful example of our tax dollars at work.]

So, back to Lauren. Her older brother is always making her angry or annoying her or doing something awful to her, like breathing in the same room. This causes fits, tantrums, name-calling, and now – the new development – revenge toy destruction.

Yep, the little bag of sweetness and light just demolished her brother’s headphones to his new spy gadget toy (present from Grandma; although just think about this: My son now has a tool that magnifies sound so he can hear whenever Navy Guy and I are whispering in any room of the house. Is the destruction of the headphones really a bad thing? If parents can’t keep secrets from their children, what kind of chaos and anarchy will ensue??)

We had a big talk about Mommy being disappointed, and respecting other people’s property, and the fact that Santa is watching us really closely. In fact, we sent a few ‘Keep an eye on this house, Santa’ type e-mails this week to the poor fat dude in the red suit; no wonder he’s stress-eating all those cookies. But, basically, the kids are both wound up out of their minds with the excitement of only two days till Christmas.

Of course, Navy Guy just hit me with the “I got you a really cool present, but it won’t get here till February.”

He’d better hide his headphones, is all I can say. Where do you think Lauren gets her vengeful nature from, anyway??

Hugs,
Alesia, wishing you all happy holidays – see you next year!!!

Posted by Alesia at 1:32 PM | Comments (1)

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Posted by: Lani at December 23, 2004 1:42 PM