?Jib Stirt Dad! Jib Stirt!?
Lately, I have been having a tremendous time watching my 2-year old "discover" Christmas for the first time. Her enthusiasm this season has been exhausting (to say the least) and she often appears to be "hypnotized" by the multitude of lights and decorations that have taken over our house. My other two children are much older (15 and 9) and I had forgotten how much fun it is to watch them race around the tree like Richard Petty at Daytona. One of the funnier moments came when she watched "Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer" for the first time. Now, I must admit that I LOVE all of the Rankin & Bass animated holiday specials, and we own the complete set of the stuffed characters. I also have a rather large photo of J.E.B. Stuart in my office. Well, my daughter, (who has apparently been recruited into the ?Cause) believes that Yukon Cornelius and our beloved General Stuart are one-in-the-same (their beards are strikingly similar). Needless to say, I didn't correct her, and now every time that she sees him on TV or in the store she points and yells out ?Jib Stirt Dad! Jib Stirt!? I couldn?t be prouder.