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Aloha and Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian for Christmas)! Mummy end
Daddy are very busy this year and asked me to write their eignth
annuel letter. I took eight steps today all alone and my seventh
tooth just came through - but wait - maybe I better start at the
beginning ;

"Wake up, honey, we're going down town!" I opened my eyes and
there was the Lady from the Bureau. Going to town - in a cart iG
didn't take me long to get out of my basket and get dressed. Of
course the Lady helped me, for after all when you are only four
months old it is hard to put on clean diapers and things! Soon we

were in the Lady's car and on our way down town - then

5 she told me the big news - that my new Mumay had cone
4 all the way from Honolulu to take me home with her.
yh i in: On the way to the office I wondered what my new Mummy
SS (<) would be like - would she be big or little? would she
CAR be fat? would she smile at me? would she like me?

In no time at all we were at the office and there She
was. My, she looked nice - she was quite small, but when she held
me I knew she wanted me to come and live with her, Her sister was
there too with her little boy and after Mhumy got some instructions
we went out to a new house. I stayed there a few days and had lots
of fun, The little boy let me sleep in his bed and I even wore sone
of his clothes until Mummy got me some new ones. Lots of people
came to see me and told Mummy how to take care of me. But Mutiny
didn't need much advice, she knew quite a bit about it - later I
found out she had been reading the Parent's magazine for a long
time and hed read.some books and had often helped take care of other
little boys and girls.

While we were staying with Aunty lots of Mummy's friends ceme
to see me and brought us »resents. Sometimes a lot of them would
come together and we would have a party. verybody sat around and
talked and had cake and coffee but all I got to drink was my bottle
of milk!

I'll never forget the long ride on the train to Mumnay's parentss
house. We went over, around and under mountains until )
I elmost got dizzy. Everyone on the train was nice to me. OY
They were always coming to peek in my basket and make

funny..noises.
TRAIN b+ oe

Mumny's mother and dad were glad to see us and we stayed there
for quite a while and more people came to visit us. Mummy would
take me for a walk in the snow every day. We would visit several
of the neighbors and then go to the postoffice where Mumny always
asked if there were any letters from "Daddy". I used to wonder