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We spent Friday evening with friends we hadn't seen for a long while, and at 10:00 pm we decided to go tobogganing: the first serious snowfall of the season was on the skimpy side, but we wouldn't let such a small obstacle deter us.

( Where rainette reflects on her children and who they take after )

( where Husband has an accident and learns to use his left hand )

( Where rainette discovers the Real Purpose of Tiger Balm )

But I really shouldn't complain, cos yesterday evening, I caught Froglet and Tadpole sitting together on the stairs, with their little heads together over Froglet's library book, and Froglet was reading Tadpole a story, and Tadpole was listening intently.

They're adorable kids, if I say so myself, and I am so happy that they are each other's best friend.

thank you seshat1 for the pretty icon!

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ANNNNNNND.....

OK, I know this is completely uninteresting to most of you, but my Froglet just mastered counting in intervals of 5 in about, oh, 5 minutes altogether *preens*. ETA and by that I mean that she's grasped the concept entirely. She is playing with it now, counting in other intervals, and just counted flawlessly (albeit slowly) in intervals of three, without using her fingers at all, up to 50. Ahahahahahaha.

She's doing great and I am delighted, lalala. Good thing I am not too shabby in maths, actually, cos I still remember starting "modern maths" (at the time) in grade 6, and how I explained the basic concepts to my elderly but very open-minded and interested dad... And then one day, in a dark corner of his library, I found a small book with a very discreet cover that I guess he had been trying to hide from me all that time.

Its title was "Modern Maths for Parents: A Simple Approach" (yeah, my translation, but it's close enough).

Ah yes. It was one of those moments when I suddenly realized that I was growing up.

One day they too will realize that they know more than I do, and then they will be a little sad and disoriented for a while. It's so good when you can trust someone to know everything there is to know.