Page 19) Christmas 1998

You [Kenzie} love everything about x-mas: the lights [you helped GG put the outside lights up], the candy canes, the decorations, the icing for cookies, the "Merry Christmas", the x-mas books, you even found x-mas on one the the many "Thomas" tapes. You know the x-mas colors are 'red & green'. I made your name out of red and green cookie dough. Mackenzie, " Two 'E's grandma". You wouldn't wait for Mama to come home to see it. You ate a keg off letter 'A'.
We play 'wrestle you', chase around the house with me hiding sometimes, trains [a lot], baseball, coloring [color shirt], play dough [with GG making a train engine] and Legos - we like castles.
Dec 26th
You get to see all your cousins, but Diedra is your favorite. Kenzie, " take Diedra home to sleep in my tent" [you just got a new tent for x-mas]. Every time Diedra was out of your sight.... "where's Diedra?" Diedra is Aunt Pam's youngest girl of four girls. She has red hair and is very pretty. You asked all night to take her home. It seemed like you were 'in love' with her at 2 3/4 years old; she's a little old for you at 13.
You wore your special red 'train' sweater today; there is an engine with smoke on the front , on one side. And a caboose on the front, other side and freight cars on the back. The train is at the bottom of the sweater and looks like it travels around your body. The sweater has a 'V' neck and special zipper instead of buttons.
Aunt Debbie [Uncle Mike's wife] has a 'beautiful' engine ornament on her x-mas tree. You saw it and wanted to hold it. A little later, when you and mom were getting ready to leave, Aunt Debbie let you hold the engine ornament. When she took it back and hung it on the tree you cried and cried. She asked you if you would trade 'GORDON" [your favorite engine, you had in your hand] for the ornament and you said 'yes' to every ones surprise. NO ONE thought that you would trade 'GORDON' [engine] for anything.