Random

1. Eva, walking past a small grocery store that had gone out of business: "Maybe they'd have done better if they'd just labelled everything ORGANIC."

2. I decided to shoot a little home video of Addie in the tub. Not nekkid, just her happy little face as she sang and talked to herself.

The video goes something like this:

Zoom in on face of singing child. Child notices camera and smiles, then sings some more, placidly rocking back and forth.

"Bateau, sur l'eau..."

Zoom out slightly.

Child - known for taking dumps in the tub - then suddenly makes anxious expression and whines:

"Wanna go caca!"

VOICE ON OTHER SIDE OF CAMERA SHRIEKS, "OH!" AS CAMERA SHOT DROPS TO FLOOR NEXT TO TUB. QUICK FADE TO BLACK.

(*we made it, by the way!)

3. Addie does seem to be getting the hang of this potty thing...although she hasn't grasped that the detachable plastic bowl of her little stand-alone potty will hold more than a single turd at a time.

The moment she hears "something" hit the bottom of the potty, she leaps off and whips around to stick her face down in the hole and check it out.

It doesn't matter if she's completely DONE.

SOMETHING happened, and she wants to deal with it RIGHT FREAKING NOW.

So with a flourish and chanting, "Bravo, Adele!" she pulls the potty apart and dumps the offending item in the real toilet...then flushes dramatically - and with a few more rounds of "Bravo, Adele!" reassembles the potty and sits back down to continue her business.

Girl takes longer than a 109 year old man who missed the prunes at lunchtime.

But she gets it done.