Happy New Year!
We promised Dutch she could stay awake as long as she liked on New Year's Eve. She was very excited.It became clear that what she really wanted was for us to go to sleep so she could be the only one awake and she could pretend that she was a grownup who lives by herself. She suggested about 800 times that maybe we should go to sleep. Around 8:30, though, she made me lie down on the couch, laid a blanket over me, laid another blanket over that (more or less making me up like a mattress) , crawled between the two blankets, and fell asleep in about three minutes. An hour later she peed on the couch, and slept through the peeing, the cleanup, and the transition to her bed. (This was her first bedwetting episode in at least a month... damn holidays.) So we rang in the New Year in style!
Today we drove (!) the car (!) to a "wilderness" area at the edge of the city and got a rare fix of outdoorsiness (after the obligatory New Year's Day TV-watching, during which Michigan beat some other team at football) . Dutch liked the carnivore poop we found, with fur in it, and kept running ahead and hollering "guys, I found something!" usually indicating a thrilling thing like... a rock. It was fun. Also, the park is on the airport flight path, so we saw a lot of planes, all of which Dutch breathlessly deemed "gorgeous." It was a good start to the year.
Dutch has got my cold (which is weird, since I still have it, too, though I'd be happy to let it go), and is oozing and sliming all over the place. She has decided that it's inefficient to bother with a hankie when she has such a convenient shirtsleeve, so she's extra-disgusting.
That's the news so far in '08. May all your new years kick off with less mucous, and plenty of rocks!
Today we drove (!) the car (!) to a "wilderness" area at the edge of the city and got a rare fix of outdoorsiness (after the obligatory New Year's Day TV-watching, during which Michigan beat some other team at football) . Dutch liked the carnivore poop we found, with fur in it, and kept running ahead and hollering "guys, I found something!" usually indicating a thrilling thing like... a rock. It was fun. Also, the park is on the airport flight path, so we saw a lot of planes, all of which Dutch breathlessly deemed "gorgeous." It was a good start to the year.
Dutch has got my cold (which is weird, since I still have it, too, though I'd be happy to let it go), and is oozing and sliming all over the place. She has decided that it's inefficient to bother with a hankie when she has such a convenient shirtsleeve, so she's extra-disgusting.
That's the news so far in '08. May all your new years kick off with less mucous, and plenty of rocks!
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