Little Girl Logic

Time: For the past few weeks (as long as Christmas specials have been airing on tv) Abigail's been obsessed with the time. She asks me a million times a day, "What time is it, Papi?" It recently dawned on me that, while I've been giving her accurate accounts of the time, that I've been giving her the wrong answer. She's been waiting for me to say, "It's CHRISTMAS TIME!" See, in her mind (and I'm pretty sure Elise is convinced of this as well) "Christmas Time" is an actual time on the clock and she just hasn't been asking me what time it is at the right moment. We're trekking East this year to spend Christmas with family. Oh what shrill shrieking there will be when at long last the girls will hear what they've been waiting for us to say.

Also falling under the "Little Girl Logic" category is Weather. In all the Christmas movies and commercials there's snow. It can't be Christmas Time if there's no snow. And every little girl knows that it only snows at Christmas Time. Based on those truths we get the equation: Snow = Christmas Time. The inverse (Christmas time = Snow) is also true. Along with the incessant questioning about the time is a funny (to me) obsession with looking out the front door window for the snow. I think she's hoping to scoop the story and be able to tell me when it's Christmas Time by watching the weather. I don't have the heart to tell her that it doesn't really snow where we're going next week. Growing up in GA, I remember a few times when it snowed and all the kids ran outside to roll up the pine needles with the light dusting that managed to stick to make a "snow man." More like a "snow cave man" complete with pine needle "hair." But I guess there's always the off chance there will be snow somewhere on our journey. Hope so.