CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!
You are two years and one month and this Christmas is going to be very special. You understand about presents and parties. On Saturday your Mom and Dad invited me to the children's Christmas Tree party at Derivco (where Dad works). I was a bit worried about you being afraid of Santa because when I took you into Checkers at the Pavilion about a month ago you screamed hysterically when you saw a mechanical Santa playing music and saying 'Merry Christmas... ho. ho, ho!" I had to rush you away from him and calm you down. When I went back to the shop I saw that the Santa had been moved! Maybe you weren't the only child terrified by the large man in a red suit waving his arms about ringing a bell and shouting out Christmas ho, ho, ho!?
At the Christmas Tree party Santa arrived in a little train engine. You didn't mind the fairies but you weren't too keen to get close to him. Inside, there were displays of food - snacks, sandwiches, mince tarts, eclairs, cup cakes, sweeties and, there was a chocolate fountain on a low table with marshmallows and biscuits for the children to dip into the chocolate. You were delighted - and what child wouldn't be! When your name was called Tammy carried you to Santa to get your pressie you said, "No present - chocolate!" You weren't in the slightest interested in the gift - only in the chocolate fountain!
Your vocabulary is amazing! There isn't a word you can't say and you copy everything you hear. 'Scissors, possum, birthday, Father Christmas, shivering, splashing' - you say them all. The only thing you can't say is anything beginning with a 'G' or a 'K'. You say those words with a 'T'. So, when it is cold you say, 'It's tolt.' And for 'look' you say 'loot'. "Loot, me warting" and when you want Gumpy you say, "Where Dumpy darn?" Its very sweet, Em. You are a lovely little girl with impeccable manners. You always say, 'Tant-you Danny'. I am Granny but for now I'm Danny - but I don't mind!
Big kiss my darling girl.
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