Down or Up?

Lily is so excited that tomorrow is December 1.  Last year, we started a new tradition.  We hang an advent stocking, and each morning, the girls pull out a little piece of paper that tells them something fun we are going to do together that day.  We were talking about this on the way to school this morning because we saw a store with lights on all around it.  It reminded Lily of our trip to Callaway Gardens which made us start talking about our December stocking fun.  I asked Lily "Are you so excited that we start our Christmas countdown tomorrow?"  Lily paused for a minute and then said "Mommy, it's not a countdown.  It would be a countdown if we started at 24 and went to 1, but we start at 1 and count up to 24.  It's a Christmas countup."  I wasn't sure how to argue that wonderful 5-year-old logic, so I agreed.  So, let the countup begin!