News & Views

Mariah seems to be producing a mate for her lone top tooth (she's got three on the bottom, which makes things a bit lop-sided!) and this new tooth is sure giving her the blues.

Lily has really taken to Madeline, a recent book from the library. A childhood favorite of mine, she is especially intrigued by the bed that is "em-peet" in the row of 12. She knows of course, that it's empty because Madeline is in the "ha-pit-al", and likes to find the pictures of Madeline in the hospital. She's also decided to add the suffix "-ing" to most of her verbs (would that be the present participle???), so most of her actions (the ones she reports, anyway!) are in the present continuous. I guess that is actually somewhat fitting, since she rarely thinks about anything other than the immediate present, and most of her actions are repeated over and over!

I am starting to sew a new batch of diapers. I've finished the pattern design, done a trial run, made pattern adjustments, and finally cut into my good fabric (lime green french terry! - sweet stuff!) for the first one today. I need to assemble this one and try it out a bit before I do a mass cut-and-sew of a dozen or so. Maybe I'll get them finished before we come home; we'll see.

I feel kind of badly leaving a mention of Ben out of this update, but I feel equally badly say, Ben is working, working, working. But that's how it is, and last week and this week (and maybe next week too) he will work Saturdays as well. They are in the heat of finishing up stuff on this phase of the project.