Today At Pick-Up

Julie is traveling tomorrow (just down to Winona, Minnesota), so she was later than usual leaving work because she was tying up this and that. When she arrived at the daycare, all but three of the infants in Clara's room had been picked up or transferred to the pick-up room, and one was asleep. Bird was in the excersaucer facing the door, looking straight through the glass, one assumes, watching all the comings and goings. When she caught sight of Julie, it was like the clouds parted. What a smile! Hearts skipped beats!

Then, we were off to get Joe who was found absorbed in loading cargo of the circus and zoo variety (an elephant) on to a truck and vroom-vroom-ing it along. When Julie squatted down for his hug, Joe (as usual) picked his feet up off the ground and really leaned into it, which turned into a fun, gentle game of tackle.

Then, we headed off the foyer, where the Scholastic book fair is going on. It was mobbed last night and Joe didn't wade into the fray. But tonight, only Marco was also scampering about so Our Hero bounded right over to a book entitled Trucks!, which claims to feature more than 100 trucks.* Here we admit to our legion followers, that the book is contraband at this point. As we did not have a check or cash on us, and Our Hero could not be persuaded to part with it, we absconded with it reasoning no harm, no foul if we brought the payment tomorrow. Julie knows what it's like to be at the bookstore with your pile of prospects and when a book is calling to you, a book is calling to you, and the siren's song is not to be resisted (unless you do not have payment, and it is not a book from the Scholastic book fair found a half hour before closing time and you will bring payment tomorrow).**

*We are suspicious of this claim as there is one truck featured for each letter of the alphabet and there are only 26 letters in the alphabet (no flies on this reporter!). Even accounting for the multiple say fire engines, more than 100 seems a bold claim.

**This is Catholic guilt and formal legal training at work and on display here.