Jada and Katie- I just had to share this story. On Thursday Lili and I were standing near the bathrooms talking while she was waiting for a turn to use the bathroom. All of a sudden one of the younger students came out of the bathroom with his pants around his ankles and Lili, without missing a beat looks at me, rolls her eyes, and says "awkward" WHILE USING AIR QUOTES. Oh my goodness, it was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
I hope it's clear that I adore your daughter :)
As if it were not sweet enough for Lili's overworked (and--let's all just acknowledge--underpaid) preschool teacher to take a moment of her personal time to share a silly story about our daughter, getting this e-mail completely made the mom's evening (and we hadn't even been drinking!). The kids comedic timing is really pretty spectacular, if you ask me. "Awkward" gets tossed around fairly liberally in our day to day, but not necessarily at such opportune moments. Using "awkward" when confronted with a classmate wearing no pants is far more effective than, say, using it when Mommy drops a sock while carrying the laundry basket upstairs. Air quotes in a school setting? This is a real proud moment for the moms.
In a different vein, our portraiture theme last week was "shadow". And with shadow, comes one more thing to add to my list of "Reasons Why I Will See You in Hell, Minnesota Winter". There was literally no sun last week. You think I'm kidding. The next time you happen to reside in Minnesota during the month of January, try and find your shadow. IT DOESN'T EXIST. And during the brief glimpses in which it does appear, the wind chill outside will be at least 30 degrees below zero, and your shadow will drag you kicking and screaming back to the nearest enclosed space. I did what I could, though. Thank heavens for Minneapolis skyways and Starbucks to go.
Happy January, friends. The sun'll come out...someday. Right?
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