tonight, ava held a fork to her nose, prongs sticking out, and said "look at me! look at these horns on my nose! i am A DINOSAUR!!!"

and later when she protested going to school for the bazillionth time, i reminded her that "we said that we were going to stick it out til the end of the year"

and she said: "what does it mean to stick it out of the end of your ear?"

we played outside today with the leftover spray bottles of paint (from her birthday party), coloring the snow. very fun.

however, you know you might be overextended when you glance at your legs when getting dressed and realize that the hair on one is noticibly longer than the (also overdue) hair on the other. or when, at 3 am, you look out the bedroom window at the plow going by and wistfully think about how great it would be to get to drive around all by yourself, even if it is in a giant plow scraping along in the middle of the night.