JANUARY 2012

Smart kid update: last night, Sam started to do the "eenie-meenie-miney-mo" thing to choose between his two toothbrushes for the nightly teethbrush. Anna cut him off about two seconds into it, pointed at one toothbrush, and said: "It's that one." When I asked her how she knew already, she said that she just took a minute to figure it out once: whichever of two things you start the "eenie-meenie" thing with, that is the one that you'll eventually pick after you eliminate the other one. And how come I never thought of that before?