birthday shout-out

Happy birthday to aprivatefox, someone I admire and hope to get to know better. :-)

the girl knows what she likes

Though most of it's likely out of her reach...

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Dear Santa:

I WOT FOR CEMS IS A DALOL AND A TOY PONE AND A IPOD AND A FONE AND A BABY DALOL. I WOT A GUM BOL MCECM AND A SOKEM AND A UO POSEMAND AND A ROBOT. I WOT A TEN DOGS. I WOT A TEN CATS. AND UO BODL UVHUNE.

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Dubious translation:

I want for Christmas is a doll? and a toy pony and an ipod and a phone and a baby doll. I want a gumball machine and a soak-em? and a new Pokemon? and a robot. I want ten dogs and ten cats. And a new bottle of honey (?).

Scorecard:

doll - She already has an American Girl doll that her grandparents just bought for her birthday, so no. But she might get a couple of generic outfits for it from Target or Michael's, because the AG prices are insane.

toy pony - No. She wants the FurReal version that's going for hundreds of dollars. Though she is getting a FurReal kitten that I found for $10 at Ross's. Hopefully that will be okay.

ipod - Probably a more generic and kid-friendly mp3 player - this might happen, not sure.

phone - My six-year-old wants a cell phone? Umm, no.

baby doll - She has a gazillion. No. But maybe outfits and/or bottles.

gumball machine - She already has a cheap $10 machine and Santa did purchase some gumballs for her stocking. Score!

soak-'em - No. Nonononono.

pokémon - Likely, though probably from other family members.

robot - probably not

ten cats - no

ten dogs - no

bottle of honey - we can do this, though I'm not entirely confident in my translation (imagines child thinking, 'santa gave me honey? wtf?')

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Verdict: Ellie is likely to be disappointed this year. But with that list, how could she not be?

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Edit: Our big family present to ourselves is a Wii, so we're not getting much more than that - just stocking stuffer sorts of things. I think Ellie will enjoy the Wii, though; she did the one time we all played together.