Beach Slapped

Christmas – from a two-year-old’s perspective

Barton Grover Howe is taking some time off from writing to assemble a Christmas present for his two-year-old daughter, Nola Victoria, which, despite the labeling, was clearly not made in China. (The present, not Nola; she was made...never mind.) Filling in for him this week is his two-year-old daughter, Nola Victoria.

Finally a Christmas that lived up to the hype. My third, I can honestly say it’s the first one where I got the sense someone actually gave a flip about what I wanted.

During my first Christmas I was a spectator. Just six months old, my parents would place me on random red and green objects and shoot eight billion photos, just waiting for one where I didn’t look constipated or asleep.

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