Oh yes, Kelly…good one! That is a great electrostatic discharge collector!

I know it’s time to go back to school, and not just because the girls are at each others’ throats (literally), and playing too carelessly with their menagerie of pets, real and imaginary.  Poor Teddy Bear.  I found him nearly strangled by strips of stickers last week.  Kelly told me he had been in a horrible motorcycle accident. The last couple of days have been full of red flags that they are hitting maximum capacity in their ability to fill their days:

While playing in the sandbox last weekend, they were full of giggles.  I have no idea how the $1 butterfly nets have survived their unconventional rough play, but seriously, I’ve gotten my money out these things.  I looked up from my book to the announcement from the girls that they were making “Lightning Rods” to protect the house.  Wow.  I have the beginnings of Phineas and Ferb, right in my own backyard.  They worked on those rods for at  least an hour, because according to Kelly, “I know lightning can’t hurt you inside your house, but you can’t be too careful, because lightning can die you down.  And then you are dead.  FOREVER.”  This is a real evolution in thought from last year when she dictated a story to her teachers that no Disney princess marries until after she dies.  Snow White, Sleeping Beauty…yep…you gotta die to find your Prince.  I have some single girlfriends who might agree with that fact.

Today Sara handed me a piece of “mail” (she asked for stationery and stamps for her birthday, and now I get mail all day long).  Her first piece of mail was an illustration of a flower, a butterfly, a mirror, and a tooth.  I try not to be critical of “art”.  My second letter read, “Srre thhat we wot be hom.  Sid Bi Sara”  Sorry that we won’t be home.  Signed By Sara.  I love her Pooh-style cards.  When I called up the stairs to find out why they won’t be home, they announced they had built a boat and are headed to Africa.  I found them upstairs, in their tap dance costumes, sailing to Africa (which everyone knows is proper Africa-sailing attire).

Yep…time to go back to school.  I’ll let the professionals decide what to do with my Dali-Drawing/Boat-Building-Africa-Sailing/Lightning-Rod Constructing children.