10 OCT 25

Patience is already in a furious scribbling of drawing pencils and cootie catcher templates with a mug of hot cocoa...

Yali hack-coughing into convincing me he needs a break from math class that morning...

Mobile mechanic hacking open Presley's dashboard to finally remove the plaguing driveshaft...

Classic Halloween playlist for the kids while throwing together several pots of chicken noodle soup for all three of them who are apparently experiencing the same simultaneous craving...

Patience later produces the completed cootie catcher... following Puck around the house... “Ask my cootie catcher a question!”...

Oxbear leaves for a school board lunch appointment at Crushed Red...

Tug Patience over to her annual physical entirely completed in twenty minutes... a 70th percentile on height... and an enthusiastic congratulations of health from her pediatrician...

Walking back to the car Patience asks if she can make snickerdoodles when we get back...

An hour later the boys are munching on a batch freshly removed from the oven... offering critique that only big brothers can offer...

Then Puck starts arguing apologetics with me before driving out to J's... they want to go to the Renaissance fair tomorrow...

And we've got about four other places to run before the day's over...

“Mom! Ask my cootie catcher a question!”... “Okay... will you and Yali fight all afternoon?”... **colors swish swish numbers swish swish numbers swish swish**... “YES!”...