Ayanda

So I don't mean to be ungrateful, but after an excessively, painfully, agonizingly long wait, we finally got some pictures of the new niece, and it totally made everything worse. Now it's not some imaginary, hypothetical niece I don't get to hold, it's that one right there, the adorable squishy one in the monkey hat.
Damn.

in a nutshell

Mom: "What do you think we should name our new kitten?"

Alec: "Adventure Scout!"

Owen: "Mittens!"

Isaac: "Buttcrack!"


This was like some kind of unintended snapshot personality test.

lock up your veggies

Mom: "Alec, do you know who pulled all the green tomatoes off the plants?"

Alec: "..."

Mom: "Alec."

Alec: "Um, yeah, but I didn't see his face. But he was wearing all black. And a mask. He was definitely a bad guy."

I have been victimized by the green tomato ninja.

moving right along

So Daisy is healing nicely, even though I did not make her a hound cake, and now she has her barking buddy staying with her all summer long! Woo hoo! Athena is staying with us all summer because Mom is off to Johannesburg to squeeze Caitlin's baby, and I am not going into How Wrong and Desperately Unfair It Is that I am about to have a niece in another hemisphere who I will not get to cuddle and squeeze and babysit and inundate with can't-live-without books and pink frilly things, so you had all just better be impressed by how stoically and silently I am suffering.
Athena, on the other hand, is not one to suffer silently, especially when someone dares trespass upon the sidewalk in front of our house, so she and Daisy spend much of the day raising hue and cry in two-part dog harmony.

In other news, I am set to check out of my classrooms today, and so that will be that until August 15th. Hooray for summer!