Milestone

At age 18 months, one week and five days, Thing Three can officially walk through the kitchen and open all the child safety locks on the lower cabinets.

Kitty love

I was giving away a box of Fancy Feast cans I had bought for Kitty, when Thing 3 saw that it had a picture of a kitty on it. She said, "Mow," in her tiny high-pitched voice, made the sign for kitty and leaned over and give it a hug. (She also likes to hug all the kitties she sees in books, which doubles the time it takes to read books like "Nobody's Nosier than a Cat" where there is a cat on every page.

Flavor of birthday cake

Me: What kind of birthday cake do you want for your party?
Things Two: Oh, I get to pick? How about butterfly nectar, like from flowers. You know, what bees and butterflies drink.