Birdie Flaps Her Wing

Look at that face! What a face! What a face! That face lights up every day when Julie walks into the pick-up room to collect Clara. (Ted heads down the hall to round up Joe who then barrels in screeching "Mommy! Mommy!" Before you get all dewy-eyed, Fans, let us hasten to add that he is sometimes waylaid in his barreling by any old toy, which ensures that Julie's head will still fit through the door.) Clara has now added waving to her greeting repertoire. Today at pick-up, Julie found Clara behind the wheel of the toy driving console, and she looked up smiled, and waved, the very picture of a woman gadding about town in, say, her sporty blue roadster!

Our Bird is also, apparently, pulling herself up right and left at school. Miss Sophie commented on it today at pick-up. Birdie tries at home, but nothing is quite the right height, and she has a good sense of what isn't stable (pretty much everything given out hardwood floors).