Christmas Pyramid

Conall has been wanting to put up "that thing with the candles and helicopter blades" ever since December began. That "thing" is our Christmas pyramid, which Na Na bought for us while visiting Germany a few years ago and has become a family tradition -- in part due to our German heritage and in part due to how much Conall likes it. Conall loves anything with moving parts and has always studied even the simplest machine with great interest.

Last night, as we lit the candles and watched the pyramid spin, Conall began asking questions about it. His class is studying holiday traditions from all over the world, so he is very interested in holiday traditions, but doesn't quite have it figured out yet. I guess since it has candles, he kept asking me if it was a "Hanukkah thing."

To try to help Conall remember the pyramid's name, I started going over memories of our Christmas pyramid and Na Na's. I asked him if he remembered the year that he jumped toward it and singed his eyebrows. He looked at me funny, grabbed his hair at the front where his cowlick is and said "Is that what happened to my hair right here?". Stu and I roared with laughter.