The Katie Chronicles: Snuggle Management Edition

We are a very physically affectionate family, with someone constantly hugging, smooching, holding hands...interwoven with lots of tickling, pretend pinches, and feigned gnawing. One of Katie's early sentences was, "No eating me, Mommy!" (accompanied by buckets of giggles) because I used to pretend to eat her feet while I had her on the changing table.  So recently, Katie was sitting with me in a chair watching a little TV. Her dad sat down in another chair and she started to get up and go over to him. She paused because she seemed to believe that I deserved an explanation. She said, "Mommy, I need to go snuggle with Daddy right now. You know how I snuggle with you all the time? Well, Daddy doesn't get as many snuggles as you do so I need to snuggle with him now. I'll snuggle with you later." I asked her to pencil me in for a 7:00 and she agreed. Now, where's Ethan?

The Katie Chronicles, Bits and Pieces Edition Guest Starring Ethan

Ethan has crossed over from Cub Scout to Boy Scout and his den's final outing was Saturday night to a Hawks game. Ethan gave me the game update afterward and summarized it by saying the Hawks beat the Denver Chicken Nuggets, 97-92. Later, Katie was playing pretend and we overheard her telling an imaginary friend that he was "getting on her nerds." (I hate it when people get on my nerds, too.) Later still, Katie wanted to hear a particular song so I found it on YouTube. The song had a bad word in it (thanks, Katy Perry) and I said, "Oh no, a bad word!" and started to turn off the song. Katie said, "Don't worry. I didn't hear it."