Summer's End...

I do love the fall, and despite the brief weirdness this weekend that was Tropical Storm Hannah, the city is definitely hinting at the autumn to come.  It's still warm, but the light is different, and the breezes are different.  There are acorns falling off the trees.  I'm not sure I ever noticed that before, that acorns fall at the end of summer.

Is it possible for a four year old to have nostalgia?  Loo certainly seems to be experiencing it.  She comes into our room in the morning, floops on our bed and starts remembrances of things past.  She'll say something ridiculous like, "remember when I went to Auntie P's wedding and we went to the carnival and then we had ice cream?"  Or worse, "remember last week, when I used to like Dora the Explorer?"

*rolls eyes*

Meanwhile, her baby sister is the incarnation anti-christ, in full on biting and pinching mode - Loo, the nanny and I all have the marks to prove it.  And this is not experimental biting and pinching, this is the sly glance to the side, smirky faced, how-many-times-can-I-do-it-and get-away-with-it  biting and pinching.  She is a calculating two year old torturing machine.  I've told Loo that if her sister bites or pinches her one more time, she has my consent to knock Kali on her ass.

Unfortunately, Loo really is a pussy.  She couldn't hurt Kali any more than she could hurt the cute furry puppy from next door.

J's back in school for another year of classes and whiny students and convocations and faculty events and academic committees and student advisoring and.... oh yeah, a contract review.  I guess the count down begins: we will know in about 6 months whether or not we'll stay in Boston or if it's off to another school in another state. 

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[teahouseblossom]

So cute about your little girls. Reminds me of my sister and me when we were little! I was the older, brainiac, neurotic worrywart, and she was the baby who got away with murder!! My parents also told me I could discipline her if she was bad. But now that we're adults, two sisters couldn't be closer!!