It's Christmas

With the help of an advent calendar Della completely understand what Christmas is. She believes it to be a time when, if you are a good girl, that Santa works with his elves and brings you a present. She loves the whole concept and talks about it a lot. For example on the way home from nursery the other day our conversation went...

D: Have the elves been to our house
M: Yes, and they put a Christmas tree in our living room
D: Where do the elves live?
M: With Santa
D: where does Santa live
M: at the north pole
D: where is the north pole
M: a long way away
D: are the elves at our house now?
M: no, they are very tired so are asleep at the north pole
D: with Santa?
M: Yes
D: Santa will be patting their tummy's to get them to sleep

The conversation went on to include a general discussion about how Santa also lives with Polar Bears.

Two weekend's ago Della met Santa for the first time. She was very excited to see him and insisted on going on his sleigh. She was especially happy that Santa let her take charge of Rudolphs reins...

I asked her the other morning what she would like from Santa (after first asking if she had been a good girl) and she said this...



It is quite sweet that she feels for Rita (her dolly) because she is the only one of her dolls who has a nappy but no clothes