Oh, YES!

I went to the Genovese to get wrapping paper - we're out, and we still have Little Christmas, gifts coming in the mail and all.

The sale wasn't any better than it had been before the holiday, so I didn't get any to stock up on for next year. What I did get is a hobbyhorse.

Ana has one of those, this one is for Evangeline. I had considered it for Christmas, but at $20 I figured the two of them could share, right?

Well, they're on sale now. I saw all the Christmas stuff (excluding the wrapping paper, which was separate) piled up, and... I couldn't resist.

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Ugh.

Wednesday is the day when overheardnyc posts compilations of quotes around themes. Today, one of the compilations is all about the WTC.

The title says it all, both here and when you click the link.

This one has to be the silliest:

Chick to friend, standing silently for several minutes: You know, there really isn't that much to see here.

--Ground Zero

NO FUCKING SHIT THERE ISN'T REALLY THAT MUCH TO SEE. That's the whole point, and if you don't get it, I'd really prefer you go be a tourist somewhere else. Like Schenectady, or maybe Boise. Even just another part of the city would be better.

Okay. I need help!

I've asked over in parenting101 and I've asked over in TBW and the answers that I've gotten have mostly been... less than helpful*.

Angelique has been asking (again!) about how the baby is made. She still thinks that we're cooked to become alive, and she presumably still thinks we're eaten, too. Which makes a certain kind of sense, and is why I no longer say that a baby is in a tummy. It's always "womb", and often even "womb, which is near the tummy, but not, because the tummy is for food, right?"

Last time she asked, I told Jenn, and we agreed on getting a book, and... nothing ever came of that.

So today, I want book recommendations. Books that treat the subject simply and plainly and honestly, and that will make sense to a fairly bright four year old, or even a not so bright four year old who thinks, or wants to think, that we're baked like cookies.

And please - unless you have a copy in English that I can buy, no links to scans of that German book that actually shows what goes on prior to conception and says that people have sex because it feels nice. While that's the sort of attitude I appreciate (though I'd of course run it by Jenn and 'dul first!), I don't want it in German. This child is still learning to read, after all!

*_{How do you politely clarify your request without also telling the person who gave you totally the wrong type of advice that their advice is the prime example of the sort of stuff you don't want to say? Somehow, this nice woman managed to hit all three points of things that I did not want! And she meant well, and it would be good advice if I was coming at it from the same direction she is. I felt bad.}

Edit: I've now gotten better advice elsewhere, so with that advice and your advice here, I should be set. I hope.