Hi! It’s me, Eleanor.
I’m back and I’m SO excited because it’s Chriiiist-mmmaaaaas! Do you like to sing? I like to sing “Christmas” like this: CHRIIIIIST-MMMMAAAAS! I love Christmas.
Christmas is when you put ornaments on a tree and bake cookies and Santa comes and puts lots of presents under the tree. We have our own Christmas tree this year because Mommy said we’re not allowed to touch hers. We can only touch the ornaments with one finger. I like to tap, tap, tap on them – but not too hard. You have to be gentle. My boys can’t tap Mommy’s ornaments because they are not gentle. Not even with one finger.
Our tree is very colorful and we have red and blue and yellow and pink and green lights. It is very sparkly. There is a gold star on top and I love the star even though I wanted the stylish pink feathery one we saw at Target. I really want my own girl tree, but Mom said we could only have two. But I love my tree anyway because it has all of my favorite colors on it. It is very stylish to be colorful.
HEY! Did you know that Christmas is on Saturday? It’s not just for girls this year, but another Saturday a few days ago, I went to a birthday party for just girls. It was a Strawberry Shortcake party and we did a “strawberry walk” and I won my own chapstick. It has flowers on it. George did not go to the party because it was only for GIRLS. We ate pink food and got our nails painted any color we wanted.
Mine are pink because it’s my favorite color. I want a Strawberry Shortcake party for my birthday.
My friend Lucy was Strawberry Shortcake for Halloween and she had a hat with a strawberry on it. I was Wonder Woman!
She is a rescuer. George was a Transformer and he says Transformers are very strong. George always says that he has “strong pipes” and then makes a muscle. George’s pipes are very strong, but my legs are very fast. I’m a good rescuer.
Halloween was a long time ago. It was warm outside for the Halloween party. Then it was Thanksgiving and now it is CHRIIIIST-MMMMMAAAAAS!
Sigh. I don’t know if Santa will bring me any presents this year. I fight A LOT. With George. And Oliver. My boys make me very mad sometimes. And then I stamp my feet and say HUMPF! And Mommy says that Santa is watching and doesn’t like my attitude. But when I tell her I don’t think he’s going to bring me presents she says of course he will because he knows I try to be a very good girl. Sometimes I don’t try so hard.
Santa wants us to wear hats outside because it’s cold. But I think I’m not into hats right now. My mom and I have fights about my hat. Once I said that I don’t care about Christmas. Then Mom said that she’d let Santa know. So I said “don’t” since I was just kidding. I LOVE Christmas.
HEY! Do you want to see my new Christmas dress? It has snowflakes on it. And it’s very good for twirling. Do you want to see my famous jette? That’s my ballerina hop. I put on my silver shoes with flowers on them to wear with my dress and practice my ballerina moves. I wanted to wear my sparkly gem sandals – but Mom couldn’t find them.
My silver flower shoes are getting small and I have a bluster on my heel. It hurts sometimes because it is an open wound. That’s why I need a princess bandaid.
When I wear my Christmas dress, I have to wear my princess crown. It is very silver and sparkly and I also have a magic wand. I can do tricks with it. What animal would you like to be? I’m a magic fairy!
I like to magic things, but sometimes my wand doesn’t work. I can’t fix everything. Like my cough. I have to take cough medicine at night because I am very, very sick when I sleep. I cough and cough and cough and my throat hurts. Sometimes my voice hurts because I have a frog in my mouth and it bit me. When my mouth hurts I don’t like to brush my teeth. The toothpaste is too spicy. But I really like the pink medicine. Pink is my favorite.
So, I guess I’m growing some freckles. Mommy says she can count five on my nose. I can’t count her freckles because there are too many. Oliver is growing freckles too. But not George. He wants Mommy to count his freckles but he doesn’t have any so she has to pretend and looks at me with squinty eyes to tell me not to say that George doesn’t have any freckles. Even though he doesn’t. Sometimes I tell him anyway. Santa doesn’t like that either.
But I really really really really really really really really want a Barbie with her own brush and purse. And that’s a lot of reallys. Santa told me that he’d bring me one last time we went to see him at the mall. The line to see him was very long. But we were very good. Until the end when we knocked over the rope and I hit my head and cried.
I asked my Mom what she wanted from Santa and she said that Santa doesn’t bring presents to grownups. So I said that grownups must be really bad. They have to buy each other presents instead.
I want to give my Mom and Dad presents, but – sigh – I don’t know how to get them. We really need to give them something special to put under the tree. But I don’t know what it would be.
WAIT – I know. We can make the PERFECT CRAFT! That would be nice. I think that would make my Mommy very happy. And that makes me happy because I really really really really really really really love my Mommy.
HEY! I think that Santa is going to bring me presents after all!
Okay – I’m going to hide under the couch now. BYE!
OH! And Merry CHRIIIIIIST-MMMAAAAS!
Utterly adorable.
Merry Christmas Eleanor, and to the rest of your family too :).
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Merry Christmas Eleanor! Hope Santa brings you that Barbie
Merry Christmas Eleanor!! Hope you get lots of fun treasures under your Christmas tree!
i LOVE your dress eleanor!!! it's gorgeous….
tell you mum that i said MERRY CHRISTMAS and that i bet she has a wonderfully stressful…lol…day :)
You have two trees?? No fair. I don't even have one. Never had a tree even though I always wanted one. You know what I say to that? HUMPF! Thanks for teaching me this, Eleanor, because I think I'm going to say it a lot. Do you cross your arms and stamp your foot when you say it? Because that's how I think I'm going to say it. Oh, I forgot — you're really, really, really (that's a lot of really's) cute.
You make a most excellent Wonder Woman Eleanor!
Your new dress is really, really, really, really extra fabulous!!!!! It is very elegant and understated. I'm glad Mommy couldn't find the jewelled sandals because the silver shoes really look just right with that beautiful dress. I can't wait to see you in it on Christmas at your house. Hooray!!! Only a few more days.
Love,
Nonie
OMGosh!! Adorable! I really do think that she and Mallory are related somehow!
Merry Christmas Friend!
Looooove Eleanor's posts.
Merry CHRIIIIIIST-MMMAAAAS to all of you!
I hope we get a post-Christmas report from Eleanor too! I LOVED this! And I hope she got the purse barbie she wanted. If I could be an animal, I'd be a lion!