On a lighter note...

Mizz and D reaped the benefits of being the products of an interfaith marriage and celebrated Chanukah and Christmas to the fullest extent of the law. For the first time, we introduced the notion that some people only celebrate Christmas and some people only celebrate Chanukah. We still need to do a little work, because on the last night of Chanukah, he asked "Can we open more presents?" and then proceded to run to the Christmas tree to see if any more presents had magically appeared. The big present from Mom and Dad was a kid tough digital camera. He has had a great time taking pictures with it and then printing them to add to his portfolio. The image quality isn't top notch, but then again neither is his framing or subject matter sometimes. Dave and I finally got with the program and got ourselves a rechargeable battery system after he went through a set in one day. The other big hits recently were not one but two cranes for this increasingly more complicated train set ups. I don't think I am exaggerating when I say that his ability to design train tracks has surpassed mine, although I can still troubleshoot better than him. He is also in love with his new Fisher Price Computer Cool School. He spent an hour and a half today drawing, playing math games, and tracing letters. It appears to be a very sweet design although the math game is a little too slow for me. D is pretty taken with everything he can get his hands on, and since he is a second child, that means pretty much everything. A few days ago, he managed to crawl through the exercise bike and rocking chair and wrap himself up in a cord in two split seconds. Needless to say I have made arrangements to procure a Johnny Jumper so D the crawler doesn't get into too much trouble.