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This evening I was finishing up Henry's bath when Dave, who had just left the house to take the dog out for a walk, came rushing back in, charged up the stairs and told me Henry needed to "get out and get dressed, fast...FAST!!!" So Henry pulled the plug, got out, and just as he was finishing drying himself off, Dave came back up and between the two of us we got him dressed and jacketed in under 15 seconds. I told him now he knows what it feels like to be a Disney princess, even if we aren't bluebirds, and he giggled and said "Wow! You guys are fast!" just as Dave pulled his hood up over his head, picked him up, and carried him down the stairs.

Dave discovered that the house on the next block that has had lots of tantalizingly unlit Christmas lights up for the past few weeks not only finally had them going, but had them synchronized to music. Henry's dream is to someday do that to our house, and it's something he talks about all the time. Just this morning after hearing a five minute monologue on what we're still going to need and how many more lights we're going to have to buy and how it's probably going to cost "like, $140!" I turned to Dave and told him he created a monster when he showed him that first video on youtube ages and ages ago. Since we've only seen such a thing online, seeing it in real life is akin to...well...gosh...I don't even know...all I can come up with is making out with 1960's era Paul McCartney and even that doesn't seem quite right.

When they came back in a few minutes later, Dave said they caught the tail end of the last song, and when Dave told Henry that he was sorry, but they had missed it, one of the guys (supposedly it's a bunch of University football players) who lives in the house overheard him and asked if they'd come down just to see it and when Dave said yeah, he yelled up at the house to play "Carol of the Bells" for Henry. And he was in heaven.