We have enough interest that the Peep Show will go on! It will be smaller than previous years, but that is okay. :)
All-O-ver, Ol-i-vore . . . we're learning that Oliver's name has some fun mispronunciations.
Also, ask him what is name is and this is what you'll hear: "My name is Oli . . . Oli . . . Oliv . . . Oli . . . I don't know."
Here I am at SFO. Again. What should have been a 40 minute layover has turned into a 5 hour layover with merely a possibility of getting on the red-eye at 10:30. Flying standby. And if I don't get on the standby flight . . . they tell me my next shot at JFK isn't for 24 hours. Yeah. So let's hope that doesn't happen. And if I don't get on standby, well, there's got to be another way home.
S: Oliver, Is Mom a child of God?
O: Yes!
S: No, Mom is a grown up!
The one night -- ever -- when Micah and I get to bed at 10:00 and could, feasibly, get 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep, Simon wakes up crying inexplicably at midnight and can't go back to sleep, Oliver falls out of bed, and we're all out a couple of hours of sleep. Clearly we need to never try to go to to bed early. It's the only way to get a good night's sleep around here.
It snowed all day yesterday. I was pretty excited about it. Schools had been preemptively closed, friends were running to the store on Tuesday to stock up on goods because they were sure they’d be snowed in for a week, and I was looking forward to being warm and toasty while the flakes flew outside. Sadly, our apartment isn’t that warm and it didn’t snow as much as I hoped. But on the plus side, several of Micah’s co-workers worked from home to avoid the storm, so his boss bought lunch for those who braved the 3 inches to come in. (Free lunch! Hooray!) And I popped popcorn and watched Ratatouille with Simon for the 786th time. (Favorite quote: “You’re the one gettin’ fancy with the spices!” Micah and I can’t cook together without one of us saying it.)
I also used some of the time to learn to use Manual mode on my camera. Here are a few photos (which I subsequently tinkered with in Photoshop — is that cheating?) from the endeavor.


(I think the world would be a better place if everyone wore red long-johns, don’t you?)