perspective of a child

My child-puts-things-in-perspective story for today: this morning Eve asked me if I wanted to bring her stuffed animal (a pig) to school.  I told her no thanks.  She was confused about how I could possibly decline the opportunity to bring the pig to school. She asked me why.  I had to think about this, and told her the pig might get bored.  I then had a brief moment of questioning my purpose in life.

birthday parties

Eve's classmates have been holding birthday parties lately. It seems that everyone in her class was born around the same time of the year.  Yesterday she went to Julia's party (Julia is in the pictures below):

sledding

The girls did their first sledding last weekend.  By the end Eve was going down the big steep hill ("rocket run" according to her) by herself.  Evel Knievel...

misadventures of Ella

This morning I left Ella in the bathroom near the shower with the water running, and I returned to find this:

new toy