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I had a mini-revelation this afternoon. After the kids woke up from their naps around 3 we thought, what can we do with them? Go on a walk, to IKEA, sledding, go out and do something . But what we ended up doing was a whole lot of nothing. Just hanging around the house, cleaning and playing and bumbling and listening to music. It was totally lovely and wonderful to realize that the best and mostest funnest thing of all was to just stay home and spend time together. Art's "herd" walking through the desert.

After reading a book about dinosaur extinction that mentioned tigers being threatened by deforestation (phrased in the most child-friendly way, of course) Art was apparently quite concerned. He called me upstairs half an hour after we'd said goodnight to ask, "How do we save the tigers from getting smaller?" I assured him it wasn't the tigers that are getting smaller, it's their forest. "The tigers stay the same size," I said. "For the whole day?" "Yes. The whole day." He smiled, yelped a little sound and snuggled in. "Goodnight, Mama."

We're hoping to enlist the kids, especially Arthur, into helping out with "chores". Today Art set out napkins on the table (he often does this pretending to be a robot that Jess has to wind up) and Lewis helped put the forks out.

Art and I were pretending to be two wolves having a territorial dispute (according to Arthur).