Awesome! That was Sascha's word of the day yesterday, her 5th birthday. Her cake was awesome. The frosting was awesome. Her gifts were especially awesome....she loved all of them. The remote-controlled VW Beetle was the hit of the night, though. Although now I totally understand the idea of not letting kids drive until they are 16. Or 25. Luckily this car has great fenders.

Now she is 5...and already jaded. Tonight she told us that she "has to do EVERYTHING" because I asked her to find her own library books. Wait until she finds out that she's probably going to have to get a job in the next couple of decades. (At least we're holding off asking her to repaint the house.)

Zoe has been vocabulary girl lately. Tonight, Sascha called her a goofball, and Zoe said, "Doofball!" Her favorite word is still "Eh!", though. I think she probably could speak complete and fluent sentences if she really wanted to. But she is toying with us. Tonight she drew all over her face with a marker, came to me and said "Mom! Me! Kitty!" and pointed to her face. She was so proud that she did her own "face paint." :) (And the marker came right off, which was a bonus.)

Photos still are not uploaded...I'm such a slacker. But this one will freak you out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are the kids and I having fun with PhotoBooth....



There are some truly frightening photos using the special effects options...but I can't get them to upload right now. So you'll just have to make do with the smiley photo for now.

We had Thanksgiving at our friends Morgan and Beth's house in northern Vermont. (Yes, there is more north to Vermont than where we are!) First we had a detour to the emergency room so I could get 8 stitches in the tip of my right thumb. Serves me right for trying to cut sweet potatoes before I'd had any coffee. The surreal thing was, the ER was like a scene from Attack of the Thanksgiving Knives. I was the second potato-cutting injury of the day (at 10 am), and by the time I left (11:30), three more had arrived!

We're still here - it's just that:

I've switched to a MacBook (long live Apple!) and haven't bothered to figure out how to download photos yet.

Even if I had figured it out, the battery on the digicam is dead and we haven't gotten a new one.

Sascha has been doing the Birthday Countdown for months....she was really excited when she had 50-60 days to go, but now that she has only 14, she is not as excited. Or maybe she is SO excited that she can't bear to talk about it.