Scenario

Crash!!

"M4!"

Silence. Pitter patter of feet.

"M4, come in here!"

Silence.

"M4?"

From the other room:"Huh?"

"What was that?!"

"The door."

"What happened to it?"

"I ran into it."

Snow day!!

Sick day/snow day

M4 is home sick today. He just has a cold, but he is coughing a lot. I thought I'd let him get some extra rest. I want him to be well before Christmas so he doesn't have to wear a mask around his new baby cousin!!

School is getting out two hours early anyway in anticipation of an ice storm later this afternoon. Noooooo!!! Snow, I'm OK with...ice, not so much. We've already had one early out this week due to snow and one real snow day (was that just last week???!!). I wish I could post my favorite snow day song...it's on one of my favorite kids' albums:

Also on this album, Cake sings Mhana Mhana (sp?...y'know, The Muppet Song). Sweet!

Little fish

Here's our little fish in her 50 freestyle event last Saturday. Grampa brought his cool mini digital video cam. Thanks, Grampa! She got first in her heat but fourth out of 13 overall. In her 50 backstroke, she got second overall out of 11. She is in the lane just to the right of the cone.

Birthday pics!

Some pics of M4's birthday celebration(s):

From our family party on Wednesday with an ice cream cake:From his party yesterday with all his buddies: The AMAZING dinosaur cake Daddy made for him:

His new Webkins pet:

Unrelated photo from his concert of Latin American music on Friday night:

Happy Birthday M4!!

You are so sweet and sensitive and snuggly; also, able to make explosion noises for hours on end and a willing participant (most of the time) in your sister's scenarios. You really are our ray of sunshine every day...how did you get to be six??

Steph won!

She won the Miami Unscene photo contest, so she gets to go to LA and compete with the other finalists (all men...ahem). Good luck in LA, Steph!