I was cuddling with Baz before bed last night (which is to say, right before I fell asleep with him), and explaining that humans don't usually sleep well when it's light out. He said, "But nocturnal animals, like daddy, can sleep when it's light ( Read more... )

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I took the kids to another musical on Friday. We went to see the Kent-Meridian production of Little Shop of Horrors. Baz still holds that Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was superior, but he just really like pharoah Elvis, and LSoH has zero Elvis content. Kay spent the entire time waiting for the plant to eat someone, and was delighted ( Read more... )

Kay made me paper flowers and cards with her own writing on them. So exciting!

Baz bought me a card that was a CSI joke, and made me a card IN PYTHON. He got a Python programming book with his allowance this month, and evidently, he is very happy about it.

And the kids made me dinner in bed, since I wasn't home for breakfast.

I feel very loved.

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I have... a lot of cookbooks. I have the combined cookbook collections of my paternal grandmother, and all the women in that line. I have garage sale cookbooks, cookbooks for causes, cookbooks for wine country, and an entire cookbook of things to do with hot dogs and hamburgers. I have cookbooks from a torrid fling with a cookbook of the month club ( Read more... )

Kay really does not like having her wart frozen off. Really. But they have nifty little guns now, instead of q-tips, and the pediatrician made a cool show with the rest of the liquid nitrogen in the sink ( Read more... )

There's nothing like helping a kid learn to read to make you aware of the English weirdities ( Read more... )

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I left work early and went to the kids' conferences. I am pleased to learn that our kids are bright, polite, and reasonably well-behaved. It's not a surprise, but it is gratifying that what we try to teach them at home is carrying over.

Kay's speech therapist commented especially on the shirt LT got her from woot:

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