high hopes

And on earth peace, goodwill toward men.

moves

This morning she wanted to show me some of her sweet, sweet dance moves. So we had no choice but to bust out some ABBA at 8am. That's not too early, is it?

corrospondance

Alex has been pretty clever with his paper airplanes lately. Yesterday he designed one that had a little tube attached for dropping bombs or sending messages. It actually flew pretty well, so we started sending messages back and forth from the kitchen table to the bar.  

There were a few more messages regarding appropriate materials and trips to home depot, but this robot duck has not yet come off of the drawing board, but I think we could make this a rubber band wind-up toy. Maybe it's a little ambitious for 4 days before Christmas and a sick little girl in my charge, but we"ll never know until we try. In any case, it's not Christmas unless you're totally worn out by the end, right?

fun with google translate

And when they put in long strings of nonsense words they thought it sounded like music in Japanese.

So they danced to it.

Who needs TV?

all tied up in knots

bliss

eat up!