Staycations

This is Keith again - blogging while my wife is away at the enrichment night that is, ironically, about blogging. My last entry expressed my desire, but apparent lack of commitment, to blogging daily to track my kids' progress in life. Here's a 1-month recap:

Abby is a little over 3.5 years old. Just last week she learned how to remove all of the safety locks on our doors. It's like the prisoner that gets the keys to the jail cell... she proceeds to let all of the others free. She also has a couple of favorite phrases and words: she really likes to use the word "imagination" and she also likes to start her sentences with "Actually, ..." She picked up a dead fly outside, ran up to me and said "Look Daddy! It's a FLY!" I replied, "Yep, it's dead and yucky, so go wash your hands now." Her comeback was "Actually, it's NOT dead. It has a imagination." I stand corrected.

Allison likes to point but does not say much. She says gibberish with A LOT of voice inflection. She must really think she is saying something, and she will every once and a while. She has to point out every car she sees and say "Ca". She has said a couple of phrases like (when running her hands through Abby's hair) "What's that? It's hair." Then she will say nothing understandable for an hour or so. Then she will be putting on her shoes and say, perfectly, the word "Shoe." I don't understand how she can say things so well, and then go back to gibberish. It worries me a lot, and I keep trying to get Lucy to play dumb with Allison so she has to explain herself more, but mommy thinks that is mean. I think it's meaner to encourage the kid to stay an infant.

Work is...definitely work. I'm about to redo the steering linkage on the Ranchero - if you knew how bad the current arrangement was, and you were driving it, you would be excited, too.

Lucy's birthday is Friday and I have no desire to spend a bunch of $ on a vacation. I like being home - my loved ones are here and it is more paid for than anything else. I like staycations.
That's about it. I'm not much for creative writing.