So last night, I'm downstairs with John and Hanna, we were watching Fox and the Hound, and there was a classic Boy/Girl Compare and Contrast Moment. At about the same time, the Girl, Hanna, picked up a soft teddy bear they had got for Christmas, and she was hugging it, petting it and saying "nice", and then "sleeping, shh", gave it a kiss, etc... The Boy, John, took out the wooden piece out of the little rocking horse that serves as the handlebars and was rapidly whacking the horse over the head. Ha.

When John sees more than one coin (he likes putting coins in his piggy bank) he calls them "moneys". English is hard, there are strange rules about how to denote things as plural. Why can't all plurals just end in S?! He'll also call more than one sheep "sheeps". Ha.

Hanna likes this reading in bed thing. As soon as we're done brushing teeth, she'll say "books!" But we say prayers first, so I'll sit her in bed, and we'll pray and sing songs, and as soon as I'm done with Running Over, she says "books!"

I finished the orca puzzle last night. I didn't intend to, but I got on a roll. I filled in a fair amount of space. I had gotten some more done on the two holes I had left, when I hit on a way to finish up the rest, and deal with the fact that the remaining stuff was all some abstract shade of blue sky. I separated out all the horizontal pieces, and all the vertical pieces. Then, in a hole I'd just take a horizontal piece and go all the way around the edge of the hole and try to fit the piece in. I went through all the horizontal pieces like that till I found the ones that went in those spots. Then, I did the same with the vertical pieces to fill in, and kept going like that till I got down to the point where I could eyeball a lot of it. So now, I gotta find a place that can frame it, and I'll put it downstairs next to the rest of my orca collection.