Tonight Carrie and I were playing with a plastic nativity scene. I made the angel say, "Peace on Earth," and Carrie said, "No! Not pizza on Earth!"

Alli and Hannah were pretending they were fancy ladies who were going on a date with daddy tonight. Hannah was mostly the narrator and waitress for Alli and Daddy's "romantic" date. Daddy asked Alli if she wanted to go to a pretend movie and out to dinner, and she answered, "Well...I can't really...because I'm allergic to...sticks! So I can't go anywhere that there will be sticks." So they went to the theatre where Hannah narrated while she, Carrie, and I acted out several of their favorite movie scenes. Fun night!

Hannah has been complaining of not feeling well for several days. But she doesn't have any real symptoms. Maybe she's just beginning to get a cold. She whines about it in the mornings before school and wants to be able to stay home. When I told her that she was still going to school she asked Alli how she felt. Alli replied, "Yes, I feel awful! My head hurts, my knees hurt, my two ankles hurt, and when I talk it feels like fuzz in my mouth."

Hannah is impressed with Alli's flexibility, and she was telling me about it yesterday. She said, "Alli is so flexible! She can do the splits, and her skin is even flexible, and her mouth is flexible, and her hair is flexible, and even her brain is flexible!" (It is true that Alli can do the splits, and she stretches her skin to show us how stretchy it is, and when she makes silly faces she pulls her lips way far out to the sides. I suppose you could even say her brain is flexible--she definitely sees things in a different way.)