see 'n say

I've been on a search for the perfect Christmas ornament for our little one. My plan is to get her one every year and when she gets married to give them all to her. Last year it was a 'baby's first Christmas' ornament. This year I wanted it to be something that represents who she is this year...like something she's interested in or something like that. I thought about Elmo, because she adores him, but I thought would she really want to put Elmo on her tree when she's 25? The other day I bought an ornament, but was kind of settling for something less than ideal--it was three snowmen, clearly a Daddy, Mommy, and little girl snowman. Cute, but not really what I was looking for. I'll be taking that one back. So today I went to Hallmark to look at their keepsake ornaments that are always so cute (but also more than I wanted to spend since we've already spent way more on her than we had planned). Well, they had a "daughter's second Christmas" ornament, which was cute, but also not quite what I was looking for. I was going to settle for that, but then I saw the perfect one. It's a tiny "see 'n say" toy....almost just like the real see 'n say that she has, and it really plays the animal sounds. You spin the middle and pull the string (it's more like the old fashioned ones in that respect, since the new ones like she has now have a lever instead) and it makes all of the sounds. It's perfect because 1) she'll love to pull the string and hear the sounds, 2) she loves animals and 3) making animal sounds is currently what she loves to do! I pulled the dog sound in the store to see how it worked and she started barking and barking. She was so excited about it. I'm excited about it too, just because it's perfect.