HOUSE OF WEIRDNESS:

The barista at Gretchen's Cafe gave Emi and Tuck lollipops this morning. Laurel wasn't sure if they had ever had them before, so she sat with them in the kitchen while they licked them. After they licked in silence for a while, Emi burst out: "Laurel, can't you give us a little privacy?"

She was very 13 all day today ("Do you like my outfit? Don't you wish you had cute clothes on like me?")

Today the kids also learned about jail, from a Curious George book, and also about nostrils. Tuck initially thought a giraffe statue had two noses.

End of day, Tuck in the bathroom: That one is a mama poo and that one is a baby poo.
Me: OK ... where's the daddy?
Tuck: He went on a trip far far away and he won't ever come back!
[James is in China right now.]
Me: Tucker, you know that your daddy always comes back, right?
Tuck, pityingly: Yes, mama, but this one doesn't because he is A POO.