anna is on an ambulatory strike. not interested in walking, very much interested in climbing. not good. so not good.

one night a few weeks ago, ava was settling down and after a few minutes of silence, she sat up, looked at me and said "so. mom. what do you think i should do with my skating?"

i said "what do you think you should do with your skating?"

she said "well, i think i would really like to be famous, you know, go to nationals and be a champion and everything..."

i told her that there were a lot of people who were ready to help her give it a shot and work toward that goal and that i thought it was an admirable goal and we could talk later about how she was going to do that. to which she said "well, i think i need to skate at least 3 hours a day and i have to land my axel so i can start on my doubles..."

carter has been preoccupied with star wars and now harry potter. we watched harry potter yesterday (he was agog), and last night he started processing darth vader's and voldemort's fall from grace and what it meant to be on the dark side. he said, "well, first he was here" and he held out his left hand, and then said "and then he went over here" and he pointed with his right hand. "he went all the way over to the other side of the earth. "

the other day he asked me if i knew who/what god was. i deflected and said "who do you think god is?" and he said "that's easy! god is the messenger for the great spirit!" and he scoffed and said "that's easy. i am the great spirit."

ooooeeeeeeooooooo....



whoa. ok. so, i asked what the message was.