A New Year (Let the Adventures Begin!)

And here we are, Fans: on the flip! Happy new year! The early part of the New Year's Eve found Joe in a pair of the Justice League underwear Santa left in his stocking, "measuring the steps." (The measure "four fifty-six." Rather markedly like a clock time measurement. Must be a magical tape measure.)

A little later--when things were really getting crazy (read: right before bath--we believe we've mentioned what an absolute gas this portion of the day is before), Joe was roaming about in the buck and decided to do a little baking.

What was Our Birdie doing while all this measuring and baking was going on? Birdie was engaged in her new favorite activity: tearing up the junk drawer by the refrigerator (the same drawer with which Joe was also inordinately fascinated when he was the same age). So many delights reside in this drawer!: tape; stickers (LOTS of stickers); pens, pencils, and highlighters (she is especially fond of the highlighters); scratch pads and paper; three unsharpened Halloween themed pencils; one or two measuring tapes; a flashlight; gum; a small black object resembling a top hat for a mouse (or so it was once describe when Joe asked what it was); and probably some other things the bambini can't reach owing to the fact that their arms are short and this drawer cannot be opened all the way. Such are the thrills of life in an older home, and with the bambini. Here's to more adventures in 2012!