The most famous reindeer of all?
Ok, that's too easy. But what about the other names? This became a topic today and we did finally remember all of them.
Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!
Then we tried for the names of all 7 dwarves…which we couldn't quite get without the help of the internet. I'll put them at the end of this post. Can you get them without peeking?
But, really what I wanted to announce today is – my tote-bags finally arrived! The fine folks at CafePress sent them out lickety-split, but the mail service took them on a little tour of Washington before getting them to my door step.
I just love that sunny girl! She's kind of become my mascot. I'm going to sew a lining into one of the bags and {hopefully} get it posted for sale in the shop in the next couple weeks. Wish me luck with my sewing machine! I used it on my bird, but other than that – no experience.
Before I get to the dwarf names, here's another list that could come in handy this time of year:
Twelve drummers drumming
Eleven pipers piping
Ten lords a-leaping
Nine ladies dancing
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five gold rings
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree
And now, without further delay:
Happy
Dopey
Grumpy
Sleepy
Sneezy
Bashful
& Doc
I never gave it much thought, but now realize that these came only from the Disney movie – in older versions of the tale, the dwarves weren't named. According to Wikipedia, the Disney names were chosen from a pool of about fifty
potentials. Among them: Blabby, Jumpy, Shifty, Scrappy, Cranky, Dirty, Awful, Silly, Daffy,
Flabby, Jaunty, Biggo Ego, Chesty, Bald, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Burpy,
Lazy, Puffy, Dizzy, Stuffy and Tubby. Being Wikipedia, I'll take that list with a grain of salt. But they're pretty funny!