Dirty Water

Olivia has a book called 'Bath Time for Father Christmas' which is currently flavour of the month and we read it repeatedly. The basic story is that Father Christmas has been up and down loads of chimneys and gets very grubby and has to have a bath. Whenever we read the book Olivia always point to Father Christmas and says 'dirty' and we say' yes, he needs a bath'.

We didn't think too much of this until this weekend when we went to a local department store where there was a Christmas section. Olivia kept pointing to all the Santa's, saying 'dirty', much the the general bemusement of those around her. Turns out that rather than commenting on his grubby state, Olivia thinks his name is 'Dirty'. Suddenly I am not looking forward to taking her to Santa's Grotto in a few weeks...