You know it's true love when the two-yr old, gesturing to the wad of blue gum that irrepairably stuck in her hair during naps, says sincerely, "Do you want it? You can have it if you want to, Mom!" When I politely decline she shrugs her shoulders and begins chewing it through her hair as she trots off. Oh Pippi! Why are you so yucky, and why does it make me even more in love with you?

Incidentally, here's the twerp at dinner tonight drinking her water in a newfangled way. It didn't work out so well...