The Day I Made My Daughter Cry

Yup.

I see it coming in the near future.

It's approaching at a rapid pace.

And there's nothing I can do to stop it.

Why?

Because her FAVORITE, FAVORITE, FAVORITE book right now is The Twelve Days of Christmas.

It's actually been a rather serendipitous find for a toddler who is learning their numbers and how to read.

It's repetitious.  (oh how we all know)

It's a song (which is rather virally contagious).

It has both ordinal and cardinal numbers (e.g. first versus "1").

AND, it the illustrations demonstrate the concept of numbers and counting because you get more and more stuff each day.

Rather ingenious little book, I must say.  And according to Peter, Paul, and Mary, it fits two out of the three characteristics of a good children's song...including lulling the child into a false sense of security.

ha ha ha.

And Wednesday, my daughter must say goodbye to the book that she has made every adult read to her at least 4 times every day since Thanksgiving.

Not that she's following in her OCD mother's footsteps, or anything.

Some of us are conflictedly excited about this moment.

But we know she's got another two waiting to take this one's place.

Viva la Cinderella.