02 FEB 26

The rodent death count continues to climb... there must be some kind of silent colony living in the basement walls or something... Cheese is looking smug over his self-assumed celebrity status and also looking much like he can't be bothered about anything else but the hunt... and naps...

After the newest corpse has been removed... kids start looking for pencils to continue working on the books... they've somehow blasted through 24 mechanical pencils in four months... and now they're reduced to Puck's IKEA pencil stash...

...which slides into a day of mostly the crashing and banging around and barking and insane laughter of two children who need a little more Vitamin D and running through the snow... so they get tossed out there between learning about the human muscular system and speech therapy...

Mandarin orange chicken and rice hot on the stove at dinner... Jacob tinkering through some Irish fiddle tunes... a little quiet in an evening to reprieve between busy days...