She surprised me with her generosity

I asked Naomi to look over her toys and books and see if there were some things she'd like to pass along to her cousin Kit-Kat, who turns 1 soon. I expected a grudging offering of a few small things. Instead, she ran down to the basement, came back up with gift bags, and proceeded to fill 4 small and one quite large gift bag with toys and books. She also donated her rocking pooh bear to the Kit-Kat collection. All will go to my sister tomorrow, along with Kat's actual birthday present.

Artistry in Play-Doh

Naomi is clearly the next elementary school age Calder.

Poor Susie is so overmatched

Here's Simon after stealing Susie's ball:

Next, he pushes it back off the deck down to Susie, below, and waits to make sure she's got it:

Then he steals it from her again:

He's Here!

And currently asleep behind me, while Susie hunkers close, guarding her older sister prerogative to be closest to mama. He's a mannerless, scrawny young cutie. As he clearly does not know the name the rescue gave him, we decided this evening to rename him Firefox, or Foxy.