What They’ve Been Up To Lately

Scrambling eggs.

Becoming increasingly obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. (Despite the fact that none of our children have ever watched even one of the films.)

Saying “happy new year” after every sentence, regardless of appropriateness to the conversation.

Speed reading through The Hobbit.

Taking her first college level science class, complete with weekly three hour lab.

Painting drumsticks red without anyone’s permission.

Wearing a Snow White costume on top of her normal clothes.

Reading food labels and researching soy lecithin.

Attempting to stop sucking her thumb every morning and forgetting about the challenge every evening.

Baking Aunt E’s Famous Pizza Dough recipe solo.

Creating miniature paper cutouts of every class member.

Planning birthdays that are six months away.

Changing the artist Renoir’s name to Walrus.

Throwing away anything in the house containing high fructose corn syrup.

Sneaking Riley’s chewing gum and eating an entire pack in one morning.

Beating Chris five times in a row in intense UNO matches.

Being funny and interesting and all around jolly good fun.

(Can you pair the kid with what they’ve been up to?)