still frantically studying and working. june 4, and the exams will be complete.

however, thought i should take the time to make note of ava's most recent quest: seeing all 50 license plates. we have been working on it for a month now, and it has helped that we have been to texas recently and we happen to live in a vacation destination. as a result, we only have 7 states to go. and that does not include hawaii. the other night, as i was putting the kids to bed, and they were slowly drifting off, peter barged through the bedroom door in a frenzy. i opened my mouth to speak (more like i opened my mouth to say "what in god's name are you thinking?) but before i uttered a word, he said "i'm sorry, but there is a car with a hawaii license plate parked out front. i thought you would want to know." i grapped ava, thrust her into peter's arms, and said "here! quick! take her! carter and i will be right there..."

so we all went outside, onto main street, lake placid, to see the hawaii rainbow license plate. as our friend josh put it, it is the unicorn of license plates. and we saw it!