If Carolena is the second to wake up, we like to get snuggled up together in my favorite chair (yes, I'm an old man and have "my arm chair") and gaze at our Christmas tree. One morning Carolena pointed out a particular ornament that my brother-in-law painted for me a few years ago. It is one of the very best gifts I've ever received and depicts Chris in clericals, me in a Donna Reid-esk red dress, and a small pink bundle in my arms.
"I like that ornament of you and Daddy" Carolena said and then she pointed to the one Bryan made last year in which our family has two kids standing with Chris and me, "and I like the one with me and Nils in it too."
"Look again at the first one" I told her, "I'm holding something. What do you think I could be holding?"
Without getting up to look at the ornament she guessed, "Meeko?" (her stuffed animal raccoon)
"Nope. I'm holding a baby in a pink blanket"I replied, "Who might have been a baby in a pink blanket that I held at Christmas time?"
She thought a moment and then in a very firm voice replied in all childhood sincerity: "Aunt Kelly."
Aww ye-ah. It must be confusing having an aunt with such youthful looking skin.
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