Holiday soundbites

On Christmas Eve, gathered around the piano, unfavorably influenced by my straining my voice to hit the soprano part during "O Holy Night" (which Wikipedia says is "known for its difficulty"):

• [loud high-pitched yowling] -- completely unlike his usual pleasant singing voice; it took me a while to realize that he was even singing
  

On Christmas morning, opening up a present, momentarily misled by the picture of waffles on the reused box (which in fact held a stuffed fire truck):

• "Waffles! Waffles just for Isaac!" -- said with genuine excitement, even though he eats the identical frozen waffles for breakfast about four times a week; happily for us as gift-givers he was even more excited when he discovered the fire truck inside
  

On Christmas afternoon, opening up a little front loader from his Great-Uncle Curtis, seemingly dismissive of the many other presents he had received earlier in the day (which included at least 25 other little vehicles and one very large dump truck):

• "This is what I really wanted! I just wanted this!" -- said with absolute sincerity; I think he meant to say something like "This is just what I wanted," but he put the "just" in the wrong place