For the time being, though:

For the first time in months I have a lot of work to do - can you even believe it? - and I haven’t had time to finish the post concerning All The Puking, a sin, really, because it’s a good story.

So I thought that I’d post this picture before you guys started to think I’d abandoned this blog, taken in the rain forest area at the Baltimore Aquarium over Christmas break. It’s my dad’s favorite part of the aquarium, he told me, and when I asked him why that was, he said, “Because it’s so peaceful and so exotic and so real.” Um, ok. Cute pic, though.

I caught some kind of little bug over the Thanksgiving break and have decided that instead of whining about how it’s impossible to take care of a child when you feel sick and how the fact that my wonderful parents-in-law live nearby is the BEST THING EVER (!!!), I would post a picture and then get back to resting up and obsessing over the Tiger Woods story so I can be in good form for all the Christmas decorating I plan on doing tonight. If Nora thought pumpkins were exciting, I mean, she has no idea what’s in store.

Thanks to Cate for capturing this cute moment at the dog bowl.