Christmas Time is Here

A few years ago pbi, (pre-brain-injury), Annie liked to sing the song from A Charlie Brown Christmas:

Christmas time is here
Happiness and cheer
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of the year

Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share

Only instead of singing the last two lines of each verse--which she didn't know-- she'd sing, "Awesome good, and awesome good, and awesome gooooOOOoood." You remember those Christmas songs you grew up listening to, but didn't quite know the words? Anyway, that song was one of her favorites. So what happens today when the song comes on the radio? Annie stops what she's doing, looks up toward the radio and smiles. She loves that song. Music is therapy to her little brain.

Her vocabulary has increased to 8 words so far this week: Daddy, (Bill's personal favorite), Olivia, Jack (we've heard that twice), yeah, no, hi, what, and star. She has a noisy toy that when you touch the shape, the recording says the name of the shape. And "star" is one of the shapes. So when she touched it yesterday she smiled, looked up at me and said, "Star!"

As I was tucking her into bed tonight, Annie folded her hands to pray, and we thanked Jesus for the awesome good things He's done this Christmas time.

Jean

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.
--Charles Dickens