Dear Santa, 2013

Dear Santa,

My name is Brenley Gillis and I am 8 years old. I live in Barrachois, NS with my brother, Madden and my parents.

This Christmas I am trying to be the best I can be. For Christmas I would like to have a Rainbow Loom bracelet making kit. And, I would really like all the kids that don’t have parents, food, a house and medicine to have people to love them and take care of them. I want that because I wouldn’t like to be homeless or living by myself; I couldn’t imagine not being able to eat for a couple of days.

Oh! And when is our elf going to come? His name is Arnie. I really want to see Arnie because he’s magical and it’s cool that we get to wake up every morning and see that he’s in a different spot.

Say hi to your wife for me. I hope you have a good ride on the way home. Don’t drink and drive! We will leave you wine, mom’s chip dip and chips; I hope you like it!

Yours always,

Brenley xo

Ho Ho Ho!

An email arrived from the North Pole for Brenley!

watch!

A message from Santa!

Brenley received a very important message from Santa today. You can see it here:
http://magicsanta.ca/player.html?code=1G2UCK

Dear Santa,

How are you today? I like Robert Slaney & Nick MacNeil & Screech from the Screaming Eagles. They are my favourite buddies & friends & hockey players.

I was a good girl all year. After Christmas Eve I am going to be a big sister! (sometime after Christmas) So, I will have to be really good after Christmas, too! For Christmas I would like it if you could bring me a Dora the Explorer game, a Diego game, and Hungry, Hungry Hippos. It would be nice if you could bring me something else you think I would like. Could you fill my stocking with some treats and surprises?

I am going to have some milk & cookies for you Santa; I might even leave a toy for you, too! For Rudolph and the reindeers I will leave some carrots from Dadaidh’s garden!

89647544110u8 (<-- That’s my own typing!) Can you bring something for my cats Piseag & Sgigean, and something for the new baby?

Thank you for the book you gave me in the mall! Have a Merry Christmas! Dadaidh & I will be tracking your journey Christmas Eve!

Love,
Brenley Gillis, age 3

It's been over a month so let's see...

In the past month or so Brenley's conversations have erupted!
Some of things she's said or expressed:

• Daddy just wait a minute!
• Ma is full of shit (quickly corrected... of course she was prompted and taught to say such a thing!)
• Dadaidh said No Mommy.... followed by the biggest pout and TEARS!
• The tows are up here... (tows = cows)
• Loot Mamaidh it's a tismas Tree!!!!!!
• Shoot the Puck Geagles!
• Me no like the Loalie.

There's plenty of more too, but those would be the highlights!

We took her on our "shopping trip" to Halifax in November and she fell in love with 2 things...

1. the escalators (or big slides as she called them... up and down about 20 times!)
2. Santa!

Yep.. the jolly old fella is mesmerizing her completely. Today she saw him waving to cars in Sydney and she went completely silent! She was totally taken a back by him!

I guess that's it for now. We'll post her Santa letter when we get around to writing it!