In celebration of the next four years (I get to retire this icon!)

"Dubya and Me"

Fascinating article.

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Hey, did you guys know that Mo Willems is going to be at NY Comic Con?

I had not known that. At all.

Hm....

Evangeline is a little jealous of the attention her sister gets for reading.

But I don't think she likes negative emotions. I don't really see her holding grudges like Ana has done, and she doesn't hold onto a bad mood for very long either. So her reaction to a little jealousy is very constructive: She gets an easy, repetitive book (like Brown Bear, Brown Bear), and declares that She Will Read It. And she sits down and recites the words, slowly and carefully, as though she really were learning to read. All she needs is for me to tell her the parts that change. I help her by acting surprised and going (as I do with Ana, it's an ongoing joke) "NO! Don't read! STOP READING ARGH!" as she "defies" me.

Ana at that age would just recite what she knew, guess at the rest, and have conversations with the characters in between times. She didn't want help at all. Evangeline, by contrast, wants to be RIGHT, and that means it has to be something she can do without having to guess.

Evangeline, by the way, consistently turns initial sw- into f. I think this is new, I'm sure she used to say simming instead of fimming.