"I'm a one man show."

Linda debuted this gem last week: "I'm a one man show." Where does she get this stuff? There's a scene in one of her movies, Cars, where the main character tells his pit crew that he's a one man show. I'm assuming that's where it came from. Lately it's all she's saying. When you ask her to do something every now and again the answer is "No. I'm a one man show." Yesterday she even told me that she let all her school friends know that she's a one man show.

One Twenty Three

1:23am and El Nino won't go to sleep. She is teething and has a stuffy nose.

Linda's School Picture

Well I owe a whole lot of updates, which you're not going to get now, but I wanted to put these photos up. This is probably the best professional picture of Linda we've ever gotten. They caught her for real smile (not the "cheese" photo smile)! But, whoa, the class picture??!! I don't know what they said to these kids, but they all look pretty freaked out and not one smile.

Are we sisters or what??!!

Linda at 3 months (left) & Elizabeth at 3 1/2 months (right)

Four Fifty Two

4:22 Elizabeth wet her diaper
4:40 Elizabeth pooped in her diaper
4:52 Elizabeth would not fall back asleep

Naked

Somehow Linda got it in her head that anyone that is missing even one piece of clothing is "naked." If I walk around the house on a warm day in shorts but no shirt on Linda will repeatedly ask "why is Daddy naked?"

Yesterday was the Broad Street Run, a 10 mile run down Broad Street, the main N/S street through the city. Our friend Branon was running and asked if we'd come out to cheer him on. Linda and I walked to Broad St. at about 9:30 and there were hundreds of people running by already. Linda was very excited to see all the people but was a bit confused as to why they were running. (I kind of was also.) Linda and I kept walking up the block and then running down the sidewalk in the same direction of the runners. Linda felt like she was part of the race and was really enjoying herself. At one point she stopped mid-stride as a shirtless man ran by. "Daddy, that man is naked" she said out loud. Once she realized that about one in every 10 men that ran by was shirtless, Linda felt it was her job to point it out. She stood on the sidewalk pointing and broadcasting to anyone that would listen "than man is naked and that man is naked and that man is naked and that man..." We got some very strange looks.

Linda

Holy smokes. Sometimes I forget how big Linda was.

4:02AM

4:02AM and Elizabeth won't go to sleep.