Mars aint' the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact it's cold as hell...

Today is just kind of off... We laughed hysterically at Lychee humor. The building is shaking again. Just got a message from Daddy with a possibly dislocated shoulder. Lexie got up for a minute, then crawled back into bed, and she won't let Frank wake her up, it's almost 11:00am. I'm hearing this strange low humming, and everybody keeps saying rectum. I want a good thunderstorm.

Word(s) of the day: SMORGASBORD

Lexie log: I got off work 45 minutes early yesterday as the PRISM Unix box crashed and wouldn't be back up until after 4:00pm. I went home and Lex and I ran through the Elmo srpinkler. After a while I gave up and sat in a lawn chair to watch her play and finish sewing my bag. Grammy came over and they continued to play in the yard. Lexie showed Grammy her favorite tree. It's one of our three Ponderosa Pines. The greatest thing is that she keeps trying to put the fallen limbs back on the trunk. She tries to stick the limb back on the trunk and say, "It's broken!" Then she also likes to try to climb this tree. The nearest branch is probably about twenty feet up. She attempts to scale up the bark. The spot right below the tree is barren of grass since so many cats have napped there. She likes to sit and play right there. Little girl in swimmer diapers runs through sprinklers (to get wet) and the tries to climb trees and plays in dirt. Little girl gets bath. Grammy and Lex played for a while, then another Albertson's trip. As soon as we get down the aisle that has misc bin items, she remembers the last time we were here and wants to be put in the cart. We put her in (the basket side, not the seat side) and she won't let us get past this bin of brightly colored super soft pillows shaped like balls and stars, because she remembers that last time we stuffed them all in the cart with her for laughs. So, we do it again. Pile all the pillows up around and over her until she hidden from view. Then she starts throwing them all out of the basket laughing. When we got home, she refused to eat dinner, so she had milk and banana later in the evening.

Today I'm grateful for Frank and Lexie, sleep, stickers, coffee, Kleenex, my job, and flowers.