Ana took her mother's work iPad to school and filmed all her friends at lunch

I'm sure it's a cute video, but I couldn't bring myself to watch - the thought of what could've happened with that illegally snuck out iPad turned my stomach! (And that's not the most shocking misbehavior the nieces have had this week. I won't tell you the rest of it, it makes us all look incompetent.)

In other news, she's up to easy long division with remainders (that is, only with the 2s or 3s times table, and only into double digit numbers) in her "extra math". This is clearly not coming easily to her (although I must say I was astonished at how quickly she picked up multiplication where you have to carry!), but she's getting it. I'm not sure she understands why the procedure works, though, and I kinda want her to. Help?

Our remaining boy-kitten found a new toy today!

It was gray and furry and every time he let go of it it ran off on its own - he didn't have to bat it across the floor!

This, of course, was the fatal (or not so fatal, really) error. The cat got a little too cocky and the mouse slipped out of his grasp and into a crack twixt wall and floor, leaving Sandy (aka "Boy-boy", don't ask me why) utterly perplexed.

I maybe shouldn't've laughed (I definitely shouldn't've laughed, now that thing is in the house, and from what I could see the cat didn't even have the sense to give it a good bite first!) but it was positively comical, the look on his face! He just couldn't figure out how this had happened!

Next time maybe he'll kill it first and play with it after, which is the sensible order of things. Honestly, prior to its loss I'd been considering the propriety of putting a coffee can over the poor mousie and letting it go outside. It'd've disappointed the cat, but it would've been bound to have been nicer to the mouse.

Still, there are three cats up here and two in the downstairs apartment, one of whom is a rescued feral kitten and presumably more than competent at this killing gig. Any mouse dumb enough to sneak in here really deserves what they get, don't you think?