Christmas in July

I keep our Christmas nutcracker figure tucked away in our laundry room. Mommy hates actual nutcrackers (something about their jaws?) but loves the Nutcracker Ballet. I wanted to make sure that Sammy doesn't become afraid of any nutcrackers so I brought this out yesterday. She had seen parts of it back in the corner of the laundry room so it really wasn't a surprise to her to see the full figure itself. She wanted to play with it, though. And she smiled at it to finally see it out and not playing hide and seek with some hanging laundry!