Friday, December 9, 2011

Belated: Midtown All Dressed Up for Christmas

Way back when, before Christmas -- oh, I am so hopelessly out of date -- Maxine (aka Grandmama), Rosie and I went to midtown for a fun afternoon seeing the holiday sights. Fifth Avenue is so twinkly - and crowded - that time of year. First stop, straight off the subway: Robert Indiana's pop chestnut, LOVE. This sculpture hasn't budged from that spot for years but Rosie was pretty sure it was an enormous Christmas decoration. I can see why.



Rosie and Grandmama at Rockefeller Center looking at the Christmas tree.


The big tree. 

Rosie absolutely insisted on having her picture taken here in front of the John Rockefeller Jr. memorial. Why? I think because it was a picture of her looking at the Christmas tree, but I'm not entirely sure.


Me and my girl:


Rosie and her girls...or at least the ones she wishes were her girls:  


A few months ago the dreaded American Girl found us: we started receiving catalogues in the mail out of the blue. R quietly plucks them out of the mail stack and takes them to her room to peruse, at which point everything goes silent for a long, long time. The first time, she flipped through it 2 or 3 times, and finally looked up and said, "This is a very instresting (sp intended) book." So far she's never actually asked for a doll, but when we happened upon the American Girl store it was next to impossible to get her away from the windows.

2 comments:

The Laundry Queen said...

Looks like fun! I remember the day when the American Girl catalog showed up at our house. I remember gasping when my daughter pulled it from the stack of mail. I must have made myself pretty clear on the fact that one of those dolls was never going to be purchased, though, because they drooled, but never asked. ; )

CMT said...

so nice to see your posts running along about the same speed mine are these days. I see you are wearing your coat all panels out--but it's still a pretty unsatisfying look at you ;).