Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Go Mike!


Surprise! It hasn't even been a month!

So Lilly is a singer. Dave noticed this too and commented recently, "She's got music in her!" Indeed she does. The other day she was singing Angels We Have Heard on High while she was coloring: "Come little saw door him!" But my favorite was when she was singing Michael Row the Boat Ashore -- I liked her version better: "Michael row the whore ashore!"

I'm sure the picture in your mind is the same as mine, just admit it.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Maxwell Calvin Waddell


Isaac very often wears his wolf suit. And makes mischief of one kind and other. But he's never been sent to bed without his supper. Yet.

Anne gave Max I mean Isaac a Calvin and Hobbes book for Christmas. He loves it. I started finding it beside his bed in the morning. I would move the book to see where it would be the next morning. It was always back by his bed the next morning. Soon a flashlight started showing up with the book. Isaac started being less and less cooperative during the day and the dark circles under his eyes became very apparent.

One morning the book and the flashlight weren't there. I was nice enough to straighten up his bed. Aaahhh, there they were: under the pillow.

I needed to take things into my own terrible claws. So one night about half an hour after putting Isaac to bed, I snuck back into Isaac's room. He was rolled up into a cocoon snoring loudly. I was almost convinced...until I found the Calvin and Hobbes book under his cocoon and, searching a little harder, I found the flashlight waiting for me...


...and it was still hot.