Caandy Caanes

So we went out looking at lights the other night, and Kaleia had me laughing so hard tears were coming down. She calls Christmas lights Pretty Pretty Lights and we thought she would enjoy looking at a lot of lit up houses. So we are driving and she starts calling/yelling (as if she were looking for them) "CAAAAAndy CAAAAne!" We find a house with candy canes and show her and think we are good now. About 20 seconds later she starts yelling out again "CAAAAAndy CAAAAAnes", and continues until we find another house that has candy canes. And this went on for the whole night. We came to one house where the lawn was covered in light up candy canes and she goes, "WoW, Lots of candy canes." But as soon as we leave she starts calling for more. She would stop to point out blow-up Santas, SaSAs (snowmen), and any other thing she recognized but as soon as it was out of sight she was determined to find those dang canes! I find her quietly stealing them of the tree too. And I can follow the sound of "CRUNCH" to her and her hoard of canes. She tells me, "BRrr, Canes cold" as she wraps them in a blanket, as if it were cruel to leave the cold canes on the tree. So Kaleia had a thing for candy canes this season.

She surprisingly understood that if you unwrapped gifts fun things were underneath. But all was tossed aside after she found her baby stroller. She pushed that thing around the house all day with her baby in it. I think we could have just gotten her that and she would have been just as satisfied.