This year's entry in the "My Kids Look Exactly Alike" contest

High-resolution

One of my original New Year's resolutions was to drop a line in the blog every day. Seeing as I've already blown that, however, due to post-holiday exhaustion, I've revised it to trying to drop a line in the blog every weekday, not that I'm any less busy then, but my time feels more my own than when I have a husband around to entertain.

Eric has discovered the power of the written word. He got one of the last Glo-Doodles in the area for Christmas and has taken to "writing" lines of scribbles on it and then "reading" it out: "Faith... is... going... to... eat... five... yucky... bugs." Then, when she protests, he retorts in an aggrieved, don't-shoot-the-messenger tone, "Well, it says right here!"

You know you do....

As of this past weekend, most of my Christmas shopping is done. Hate me now.

(I've been planning a series of How I Spent My Summer posts since, well, September. I need to plug the camera into the laptop and download pics. Stay tuned.)

Faith at camp

Faith is at day camp this week and having a blast. The camp staff post photos of the day's activities every evening, and I just found this one of her yesterday. This would be from her Painting time.

Many thanks to Leslie for passing this along! (Faith is very disappointed that she can't actually buy these toys.)

"in the cup/ A spider steep'd"

We had two pint jugs of chocolate milk in the fridge, one with an expiration date of 11 May and the other with 15 May. Faith asked for some chocolate milk and got out the 15 May one. I looked at it and told her to get out the other one because "it expires sooner." She switched out the jugs, looked up at me a little uncertainly, and asked, "So... the other one has spiders in it?"

Celebrity Lullabies

I am, in general, a fan of neither Elmo nor Ricky Gervais, but this I love. Maybe it's the frazzled look on Elmo's face; that's one smug little Muppet who's not used to this kind of treatment.