7:2012

• Erika has turned into an avid reader. She insists on reading over eating her meals, over getting changed into her pajamas, over watching TV! She climbs into bed and reads, reads, reads. She will read to Kade and read to her teddy bear and read to her "puppy".
• The screws fell out of my study desk chair. Erika dilligently worked with a screwdriver to fix my chair. She even explained the problem with the chair to me: "Screw fall out. Chair broken. Erika fix. Mommy no fall. Okay? Okay."
• Erika tells me that her Mardi Gras beads make "Erika [a] princess".
• "Puppy" is still undergoing daily training to walk on leash.