monkeys

So, Zoe and Lucy started back to school on Friday. It was a half day, or, since they normally only go for a half day I guess this was a quarter day. And parents went with their kids. So there we all were, in a room made for 11 kids and 2 teachers (that’s 11 people who are about 3 ft tall and 2 full-sized humans). All 11 kids and at least 1 parent per kid, plus the teachers. That’s at least 24 people. And it seemed like they were expecting the kids to have a normal sort of morning,…

Ok, here’s the thing. Back before I had kids. Back before I was thinking about having kids. Even back when I had little babies who had yet to watch any tv other than the headsmackingly simple “I should’a thought of that” Baby Einstein videos, I would have given you such a hairy eyeball, such a sneer, such a scornful dishing of my witty sarcasm if you had told me that I was, someday, going to take my kids to see a live Wiggles show. And yet, that’s where I’m going right now. My mom and I are taking Zoe and…

Hey! Zoe and Lucy turned four yesterday! Four! That’s years people. Four years old. Like, the length of a seemingly endless presidential term. Or the presumed duration of college. One day they’re babies. Like this: The next day, they’re old. Like this: Zoe and Lucy, thank you for making these past four years more fun than any presidential term and more sleepless than college. I love who you are growing up to be: voracious in your quest to understand the world, astounding in your ability to surprise me anew every day. You are funny, loving, unique and totally, completely insane….

I’m sure you’re bored by now with my incessant droning on about Zoe and Lucy and their lack of interest in art (like here and then here). So I wanted to offer this update as a straighten your back and puff out your chest expression of my sheepish pride. They have suddenly started drawing people, and they are creating these masterpieces of families, not just one person per sheet of paper. That’s Lucy’s above. It’s our family, all floating around Papa. She’s also been drawing Gay-Gay and Pop, Baby Tess, Papa when he was a little boy, Humpty Dumpty, and…