Honesty

Christmas morning...Santa's visited and left toys for a good little girl under the tree...wake up! Let's see what Santa's brought!

Yes, we had to wake Yammy up to open presents. Horrible parents, I know. Mommy had to work at 9:30, so we had to schedule things properly...lol

So, Miss Yammy wakes up and comes downstairs. Now, let me preface this by saying, Daddy was very creative and decorated the hallway with all of our old stockings, hanging by the stairs. They were just tacked up there for decoration, but we have a plethora of old stockings; both of ours from when we were kids, ones we got when we were first married, Yammy's first Christmas stocking, a stocking my mom made for my cat when I was living on my own. Very cute. So, fast forward to Christmas morning, Yammy turning the corner to come down the hall, tapping the first stocking and exclaiming "This one's empty!"

"Yes sweetie, Santa's put yours under the tree" .....jeesh, kids!

So Yammy asked for a DS a week before Christmas because she saw it in the Toys R Us catalog. Well, Santa can work miracles, but pulling an extra $100+ for a gift out of an already stretched bank account the week before Christmas? I think not. So, Mommy tactfully explained, "You're not old enough for a DS."

The Monday before Christmas, Daddy comes home with a prize he's won from a random draw at work: a Nintendo DSi!!! Well, turns out Santa can work miracles! I'm in shock, Daddy's in shock....there's gonna be a DS under that tree after all!!

Ok, so back to Christmas morning.....Santa left a Joke house for Yammy (to match the Batcave he left her last year...how thoughtful!!) and a Barbie styling head...just like she asked him for at the mall visit!! That Santa's all-right! Now to presents from Mommy and Daddy. Littlest Pet Shop, Zhu Zhu pets, My Little Pony. Yea, we're pretty awesome (lol) ....and then......hold your breath....here it comes.......the DSi.......and she rips open the paper......oh my gosh!!!.......aren't you excited?? ........

"I didn't want this!"

Um, excuse me? What? Did this child just say she didn't want the thing she asked for a week ago? Seriously?

Ok....in her defense (and it's a cheap defense at that), the packaging for the DSi is "plain" ...and to a five-year-old looking for bells and whistles, the sleek white packaging doesn't really scream "I'm so exciting and so much fun."

So, wait til she sees the games! Oh yes, because this free game came with a Mario & Luigi game, but I know my kid, and she's no Mario fan (yet.) So Mommy ran to the used-games store and got her a Bratz Ponyz game and a Hello Kitty game...this will make everything better.

She opened the first game, the Mario one, of course. "I don't even like Mario" ...just gets better by the minute, doesn't it?

When she opened the other games, she was warming up to the idea of the DSi a bit more. She brought it to Nana's and proceeded to play her new games there, and has been playing it almost nonstop (Facebook? What's a Facebook? Can I play my DS?) for the last few days.

But it's that initial reaction...."I didn't want this" and her exclamation the night before opening her gift from Auntie N and Uncle R "I don't want this" that's really getting to me. (The gift from N and R was a very cool pop-up book of the X-Men. Upon closer look and explanation, she really does think it's cool now.)

Do I teach her to lie? No, that's not right at all. Tell her that statements like "I don't want this" are unacceptable and she should be repressing her feelings? Yes, the lesson of "if you don't have anything to say, don't say anything at all" would apply here, but she's been so extremely shy in the past, so the fact that she's expressing something is refreshing, even if it is socially awkward.

Oh the joys of parenthood, may you never cease to confuse me.

smart smart smart!

Yammy drew this picture today. It's fish. Lots of 'em.

She explained that she drew it for our family since we can't have a real fish tank because we have two cats. This way, we get to see fish without the cats eating them.

By the way, the rule about not having a fish tank while we have cats is her rule. I'm totally fine with getting fish...but she said no.

Not sure why only one fish is coloured red though. guess he's a special fish!

The grass is always greener

This is a conversation that Daddy had with Yammy today while they were walking home from school.

Yammy: The grade-sixes are so lucky.
Daddy: Why are they lucky?
Yammy: They get to play volleyball!
Daddy: Do you like volleyball?
Yammy: No.

What did Mommy win?

My husband and I went to my office holiday party last week. The door prizes at our parties are usually quite amazing, and this year an Apple iPad was one of the prizes. I hazard a guess to say that everyone in attendance was betting that they had the winning ticket for the iPad.

Well, I did not win the iPad. Either did Jay. Either did anyone else at our table.

More gifts given out...gift cards, digital cameras, GPS units...pretty decent gifts, but still no winners at our table. Then, the final gift was announced....a Sony Vaio netbook! The winning ticket: number 121! Me!! Love love love it!!

So, the next morning, waking Yammy up for school, I usually have to resort to some sort of excitement to get her up. As she's not a morning person, she needs an incentive to get up. Usually it's a school-related thing (it's pizza day! it's show and tell day!) ...but I had nothing school-related this morning. The incentive was "if you get up now, Mommy will show you pictures from the party and you can see what I won!"

Yammy: Did you win a teddy bear?
Mommy: No, it's better than a teddy bear!
Yammy: Did you win a t-shirt?
Mommy: Nope..better than a t-shirt.

Slight pause and much thought. Then she asked in her most serious tone:

"Is it a teddy bear wearing a t-shirt?"

What I gather from this exchange is that the best thing in the world to a five-year-old is a teddy bear wearing a t-shirt.

Why does Santa spend so much on Christmas then??

Welcome!

I am Yammy's Mommy and have decided to start blogging the things Yammy says. Currently, Yammy is 5 1/2 years old and a very fascinating little girl. Maybe it's just me, but I find the thing she says hilarious, and I've turned into one of those moms who tell stories about my kid all the time. My friends might just be polite, but they seem to enjoy some of the things this kid says. So, I figured maybe the World Wide Web would find her humorous too.

I hope you enjoy my child's Ramblings...