i have so little time to write, and am so tired, and so please don't expect much out of me for the next few weeks. i am knee deep in statistics and while i am sort of enjoying it, there is a lot of work to do.

ava has spent hours reenacting the dolphin show and the shamu show here at home. a pillow stands in for the whale or dolphin, and the living room is the tank. she has the entire script memorized. it is hysterical, though a bit tiresome to feed the dolphins for the 1,000,000,000,000,000th time.

carter peed on the potty the other day. i put him on it, since he had just watered the books, and he knew what to do--he grunted and tried his darndest to produce something, anything, and lo and behold, he did! i have no expectations that this will result in him coming up to me and saying "mommy, i have to go potty," but it was a nice step in the direction of cognition.

now that we are back, i have to ramp up for swim class. it was a lot easier when we could go to the pool in our bathing suits, instead of toting 5 bags, 2 kids, 1 backpack carrier and a life jacket or two to the locker room while wearing 17 layers of clothing. i just do not have the energy. i will find it, but right now it seems like such a ridiculous effort.