Attention seekers

-Kate puts on goofy plastic sunglasses with star-shaped lenses and stands at my elbow at the computer. "Seeeeee, Daddy. See me! Eyes. Eyes? Seeeeeeeeee."

- They had school pictures a couple of weeks back, and they came in yesterday. The company always gives them a little gift with one of their pictures on it; this time it was a little lunch pail kind of thing. Jack holds his up and looks at his, with a picture of him on it. "It's like a little mirror!" he said.

- Went to the playground today. Kate got hooked on climbing up the slide, then sliding down backward on her stomach. This was great fun to her. Later she moved on to the swirly slide. She climbed halfway up, and slid in a spiral down. "See me, Daddy!" she said. "Dad-day!" (Sometimes she yells "Dad-day!" Sometimes it's "Daddy-Doh!" It's more frequent for Mommy: "Mommy-Moh!") "See meeeeee..." and goes down the slide again.

- Jack likes to put his hands inside his sleeves. I vaguely recall that maybe I used to do the same thing? So his arms look like elephant trunks. And then he occasionally flaps the lengths of sleeves around. And then pulls his shirt up over his head, too. He was doing that tonight. "Mommy! OOOOOoooooh! Look at me, I'm a scary, googly monster! OOOOOOOOOOoooooh!" Then collapses in peals of laughter.

- We went out with our neighbor the other day; she takes great pictures of the kids. So we asked her to take our pictures for Christmas cards and the like. We went to the beach and she snapped about 200 pictures. Kate didn't smile much. Jack smiled too much. Hammed it up every now and again, all immortalized on film. All beautiful.