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Tonight we have a guest post from Lucy! Lucy has been very busy and has been developing lots of new skills.  You'll be glad to know that she now knows how to SKIP and SNAP.  These two activities have been very challenging for a LONG time, so we are all very happy.  Sometimes Lucy just skips and snaps all around the house.  If she needs to walk somewhere, why not skip?  And snap while she's at it?  Also, Lucy has been doing a lot of journaling.  She draws and writes about what she's done for the day.  I'm helping her by typing what she tells me, and uploading the photos she'd like.  Here she is:

This is a picture I drew in Free Art Class today:

It is for a show called "I Love Good!" It is a super hero show that I am going to put on for my mom's Birthday (3-28-14).  On the left is Turkey Man! He is the archvillain.  I am Wind Girl with the blue cape and Ruth is Sun Girl with the yellow cape.  We have our Super Pets, Carter (the dog) and Owl (the cat) with us.  Turkey Man is bleeding because Sun Girl shot him with a ray of sun.  He is trying to bite my hand off!

This is how I looked today:

It is funny because I am wearing my Mom's kilt.  It is very short because my Mom was shorter than me.  Look how awesome my hair looks:

I am being funny.

I went to the dentist on Friday.  I got a rubber slug for a prize.  It actually looked like a slug.  I love it.  Mommy does not like it.  I put it on her bed last night.  She yelled.  "He's not that bad!" I said.  I laughed a lot.  My Dad laughed too.  And Mommy said "Lucy do not do that."  I am going to do it again.

[WHAT!!!!!! says the typist, aka Mommy.]

I am Carter:

My little sister made this costume for me.  I do not like the hat.  But I guess the collar is OK.  Woof Woof!  I don't really woof that much.  Love, Carter

The End.

This bubble is frozen:

When you squish these, they turn into something like plastic.  Pa sent Dad an e-mail about how you can freeze bubbles, so of course we had to try it.  It is fun to blow bubbles in the cold.  Here are some better photos that other people took of frozen bubbles.  It was VERY cold outside.  Even though we don't have a picture of this, Dad took some hot water and threw it on a very cold day and it turned to snow.  That is awesome.

On Sunday, we went to the zoo.  We saw these wolves:

Awwwoooooooooo!!!!!  We saw them howling.  We saw their shadows coming around the corner.  There is a cave which has a statue of wolves with their babies.  Watch the movie Wild Kratts and there is one episode of it where at the beginning of it, the very very beginning you can see a real baby wolf cub.

The End.

Buy Nothing Day

We celebrated Buy Nothing Day by going to our favorite zoo -- Stone Zoo.  It was lovely.

The kids are having a great time playing together, and we're enjoying watching them.

We just finished Thanksgiving Dinner, Part Deux: Rise of the Leftovers.  It was awesome.

Lucy went to her dance class this morning; she's loving it.

Tomorrow we do the whole downtown Lowell Holiday celebration, with parade, Art stroll, hot chocolate and the like.  Delightful.

Also, tomorrow will feature Thanksgiving Dinner, Part Three: Leftovers with a Vengeance.

Snug as a Bug

Today we went to Stone Zoo. Unfortunately, a lot of other people did, too. Unbeknownst to us, it was Free Day at the Zoo. Ugh! On the up side, the zoo animals must have been given a pep talk, because they were particularly out, about, and active, so we saw lots of great creature action.



In other news, we were able to pick up a new something for the front room/office; see if you can figure out what's different:



Here's the before:





Here's the after:





It passes Lucy's "roll on the rug test"

Holiday Cheer and Reindeer

For any of our readers who are in striking distance of Stoneham, MA, we highly recommend Zoolights at the Stone Zoo. Sure, pictures with Santa are all the rage this time of year, but how about pictures with an actual live REINDEER!

Given Lucy's experience with Santa last year (also see here), we thought perhaps the reindeer encounter would be preferable. And indeed, it went quite well. But Zoolights is more than just reindeer: a whole area of the zoo is seriously covered in lights, and there's this path you walk through with all sorts of wacky animatronics in various Christmas and seasonal themes. The usual, a train set, penguins, various wintery animals and the like. Also, there was a large alarm clock with crazy hands that spun fast. I overheard a little kid walking by ask "A clock?" I kind of felt the same way.

Lucy loved the whole thing and ran about gleefully asking "What's that called?" (her new question, asked at a rate of roughly 4 times a minute).

In other news, 83 Durant has been receiving some exciting packages from Santa. And what I mean here is that for the past two days, we've received packages with no indication of who really sent them. We received some lovely bicycle-engraved pint glasses, and then a set of six beautiful glasses etched with a tree design. We love them! Secret Santa, wherever you are, thank you!