Kathy's Gifts...

Dotty loves her Kathy and Gary. In fact, she loves them so much that on Christmas Eve she wrapped up one of her gifts to give to Kathy. She has been determined to give it to Kathy and Gary ever since that day. She has waken up in the middle of the night wanting to take the gift to Kathy. She has had the gift in the car and demanded I take her to Kathy's house. She has reminded me 100 times she has a gift for Kathy.

Finally today Dotty was spending the day with Kathy and she was so excited to give Kathy her gift. The wrapping paper was all wadded up and almost gone but Kathy acted thrilled to get it. I am sure they will have a lot of fun with the dolls Dotty gave her.

My only question is whether or not Dotty will come home tonight with the gift or if they will truly stay at Kathy's...I will keep you posted.

Dotty

Santa Forgot the Toilet Paper...

When Dotty got back to the house yesterday from spending the weekend with her daddy I had all her new toys lined up and waiting on her. She got lots of great gifts and with all the rush of trying to make it to all the parties she did not have a chance to really play with most of it.

We walked in and Dotty looked around at all the new items. Then she headed to the bathroom. After several minutes I decided to see what was up.

Dotty had taken and pulled about 4 feet of toilet paper off the roll and was pretending it was Rapunzel's hair (she got the actual Rapunzel wig from Memaw but I guess that was not as fun as good 'ol TP).

Dotty spent a good 30 minutes playing with the toilet paper. It was Rapunzel's hair, it was used to measure Dotty, it was broken off into squares to be napkins for a tea party, it was a bridge, it was a snake, it was all sorts of wonderful things.

I vowed then and there that next year no matter what Dotty asks Santa for she is getting the giant pack of Charmin from Sam's. I bet she will LOVE it!

Merry Christmas

Dotty had a great Christmas. Of course Santa was way too good to her!

Merry Christmas to you all!

Junior's Cheesecake

Today our UPS driver brought me a Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake from Junior's Cheesecake located in New York.

The card read...

Merry Christmas, Mommy. I love you...so much! I hope you have the best Christmas ever. Love, Dot

Tony and I looked all over New York City to find Junior's the first time we visited. It truly has the best cheesecakes in the world.

I have a really wonderful daughter...and her Daddy does some really sweet things too.

Thanks to both of them for making my Christmas that much sweeter!

Where does Rapunzel live?

Monday night Dotty went with me and Memaw to see the Burns Fantasy of Lights at MSU. She has been a few times already but since Memaw and I had not she offered to give us the tour.

She loved looking at all the lights and one of her favorites was the robot that blew bubbles.

Before we left she pointed up to the tower at MSU and said...
"Rapunzel lives there. But since it is dark out she must be asleep."

I have never been up in that tower. For all I know Rapunzel might just live up there!

Vision of Lists Running Round in Her Head

Dotty had a little trouble going to sleep last night. She tossed. She turned. She snuggled. She wiggled. She almost rolled off the bed.

She finally sat up and looked at me with half closed, sleepy eyes and said...

"Momma I just can't go to sleep. I have too many toys I want to ask Santa for."

So much for the sugar plums.