Christmas Is Over

Yesterday was the big day. Kelly got deluged with presents again this year. Having well-to-do grandparents yields at least half of those toys she gets, then Jean generally gets carried away as well. Some highlights of Kelly's Christmas cavalcade:

• The dreaded Wuv Luv. Kelly asked for this repeatedly as the holidays encroached. Mom gave in. It is as annoying as Furby was last year, or Poo-Chi on Kelly's fifth birthday.
  
• A Hot Wheels Race set. It's amazing how bouncy, shrieky, giggly a five-year old can get. Every time the car went through the booster gate (a spinning rubber wheel which shoves the car along the track), she'd shriek, jump up and down and giggle. I'm pretty sure this is one of those 48-hour wonder thrills, but it was still fun.
  
• The Barbie Airplane. The highlights here were the ice machine with it's little plastic ice-cubes, sure to be lost around the house soon, and the intercom system, which Kelly used to growl and groan into for way too long. Jean's mom was trying to get Kelly to talk into it instead, encouraging her to use her "beautiful voice", but Kelly wasn't falling for it.
  
• An extremely cheap microscope set. I agree with Jean that a plastic microscope is the safest at Kelly's age, but Jean was disappointed at the quality all the same.
  

There were many more toys after those, but I can't possibly remember them all.