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One neat thing about hitting our first anniversary was seeing some of last year's holiday threads return, including Pattie's latest entry to Holiday Anecdotes:

Another holiday, another cute story about my nephew (now aged 3 and a half):

He's sitting playing with Dave and he decides that the current game is not enjoyable enough so he offers up an alternative.

Chris: Uncle Dave, want to play fire truck?

Uncle Dave: Sure!

Chris: OK, I'll go get fire! (and scampers out of the room).

All the adults in the room, half dead from pre-holiday running around, all laugh and make no attempt to move (perhaps we were just unwilling to believe what we all just heard). It dawns on us, "Did he just say he would go get FIRE?"

Thankfully the little guy meant fire truck because soon he was calling for help to carry the five-foot fire engine shaped-tent down the stairs for this activity.

We've also been sharing our tales of the Amazon.com recommendations system on the E-Commerce Shoppers: What Are You Looking For? thread, and Pattie once again had a story to share:

Just popped over there to add my new Mavericks CD (by the way, it was a crime against music that they ever broke up but this has been partially rectified by the fact that Raul Malo just put out an awesome solo album) to my collection and Amazon informed me that people who bought that CD also bought Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

No *$#&! Everyone bought that book. God bought that book! You could buy a drill bit set in the hardware section and Amazon would recommend that book. Don't ask me how I know that but it's true.

I need to lie down; this is bothering me too much.