At the end of the day I feel like this should be yet another “what a busy day” post. Jennifer is vaccuuming up sawdust in the bedroom. There are power tools strewn about the garage. Jen and I are both tired, and Anna is asleep. Let’s try to reconstruct this.

Last night I was working on a project for work which kept me up after midnight. Anna came in at 6:35 as usual, but Jen and I had both been awake already for a few minutes. While the girls went downstairs for breakfast, I set up in the garage to rip the remaining boards for my office floor, and cut 1×4 boards to hang up Jennifer’s cabinets in the bedroom for her new desk. After the floor was finished (except for the baseboards, which I’ll hopefully finish next week after a fine blade for my miter saw shows up), I started hanging the cabinets. It’s 10pm now, and we just finished. What a pain in the butt.

Jen spent the middle the of day helping out with the Kidsville promotion at North County Fair. Sounds like it was a complete success; I bet they’re going to very well. Either Jen or I will be down there again tomorrow.

Anna has entered a very amusing stage in her development. Last night, C. came over to babysit while we went to see The Bourne Supremacy (two thumbs up). Before we left, Anna, who was a little apprehensive about seeing us leave, told C., “Tomorrow I’m going to the mall and you won’t see me, ha ha ha!” This morning she said a similar thing to Auntie K. on the phone. Officially, we don’t approve of such behavior, but it’s pretty funny to see a three-year-old snubbing her elders.

This evening as I was getting her ready for bed, she kept saying “Knee how!” and flopping down on her knees, head down and hands stretched in front of her. I was mighty confused, especially because she wanted me to do it too. It turns out that “Ni hao” is Chinese for “Hello.” The things you learn from your kids.