Wednesday

A quick update on the wee one (since that seems to be the question of the week), and then on to more mundane ramblings: 

The wee one is still with us.  The plan, if all goes smoothly (does anything that comes in contact with red tape ever go smoothly?), is for him to unite with his forever family next week Thursday or Friday.

And now the mundane:

During the past few weeks, beginning when the boys were all laying limp and lethargic around the living room due to a stomach bug, Wade read The Princess Bride aloud to all who cared to listen, which was all six of us who were home.  Time being sick never passed so enjoyably or quickly -- the story is a hoot!  Parental note: he did skip over the part about the starlet trying to seduce the author and the story lost nothing.

Now our days are filled with deep-throated calls of "Hello lady," nearly whiny exclamations of "Inconceivable," and musings on the art of sword-making and wielding.

And to top it off, we watched the movie on Sunday night.  And ya know, the movie was fun, but it left out so much (obviously -- Wade read for hours on end and the movie sums up the story in an hour and a half [but thankfully it does leave out the starlet part]), and had we not just read the entire story, I think we wouldn't have caught the significance of half the stuff in the movie.

Conclusion: read the book; watch the movie if you're bored.