All and sundry

Zoe’s favorite show these days is “The Messy House Show” a.k.a. “How Clean Is Your House?” which she can read off the screen now.

She likes to wear her special “Kim gloves” (Kim is the tall blonde) and talk in her English accent about the “duht” and in her Scottish accent about “It smells like poo! Ooh! It’s poo!” Then when we clean something, she puts her nose to it & says, “Ah, smell that, luv.” I encourage this.

They’re both into games these days:

Zoe plays Monopoly Disney Princess Edition and I got them a new Candyland yesterday. They play games at school and she’s good now about putting them away and playing properly. Holden just likes sorting money & castles and cards and such.

Harry and Minerva are doing well with their timeshare situation. It’s currently his shift on the kitty condo and hers on the windowsill. Here they are changing shifts:

He goes to the vet next Wednesday to be neutered. My god, he’s a pain in the ass. He’s forever on the counters, digging up plants, getting into our people food, etc. He’s cute though. He has too much personality, I think. He’s still smaller than Minerva but she tends to defer to him. You can almost see her thinking, “It’s not worth it.” They caught another mouse, Hawk said. He said they were “sharing it,” batting the lower half between them.

We had a school delay yesterday & the kids spent the morning playing and dancing:

Imagine them going in a circle to Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” It was beautiful. And I shot some video of it. The idea that I had to talk myself into shooting a one minute video of this beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime moment — b/c of the lovely music that was playing for them to dance to — makes me just furious. And incredibly sad. I have nothing more to say on that front.

BTW: Zoe’s pajamas feature the Hulk. I don’t think Marvel will say anything. After all, they sell these clothes & such at Target and Target would never, ever do business with someone who wouldn’t want customers enjoying the product. Would they?