Welcome home, msbelle. I hope you feel better soon.

Ooh, the food app! Your meal is too much like salad for me to appreciate, but those are nice dishes...why did I go deliberate diner white again???

I used Evernote Food when I was home for Christmas. Got pretty diligent about it, and the app somehow made my food look better. Fuck, I've been using it to record my opinions of different kinds of apples, and it somehow looks less pedestrian than that effort deserves.

Note: that is not the Platonic parental knife, but the fork is appealing.

No way I could do the round spoons--the correctly proportioned oval is a key consideration for anything I will eat cereal out of. I also have strict bowl requirements.

FiestaWare, baby! I also have a set of diner white because sometimes that's the only way to go.

The dishes I had in Detroit were one colour per setting, all deep jewel tones from Pier 1 with matching cappucino mugs--that's the biggest failure I have right now--not enough 14-16 oz mugs. I've only got two, but that's how much I need to drink at once, min.

Why does that guy on CBS keep saying he's having a colonoscopy right now? It's disquieting.

I have a kid question--does kindergartner and missing tooth make sense together? How tall would she be, and would she use a booster seat at a restaurant?

I DON'T KNOW THESE THINGS.

Many kids start to lose teeth in K. The first to go are the lower central incisors, then usually the top central incisors, but those are more typically 1st grade.

Most Ks would not use a booster seat in a restaurant, but would in a car. Size varies, of course; you might expect anywhere between 40-48 inches.

I made a box and filled it with yarn and fiber.

I need more book-type boxes.

I also dislike people telling me that I need to get rid of books, cds, fiber, yarn and/or dvds.

Totally depends on the individual kid - in Matilda's case, kindergarten and missing teeth totally coincided, but some of her classmates are only now, nearing the last quarter of first grade, beginning to lose theirs. Booster seats are the same way - some kids yes, some no. By that age none of them are using actual high chairs, but some of the smaller ones still need the little boosters that sit on top of the regular restaurant seat.

Much ~ma to msbelle's stomach, and, Mac, be kind to your mom until she's feeling better! Afterward, too, but especially now.

In kindergarten, I think that I was still small enough that I probably did need the booster seat, but I thought they were for babies, and would just kneel on the regular chair instead.

I have a kid question--does kindergartner and missing tooth make sense together? How tall would she be, and would she use a booster seat at a restaurant?

My kids are totally atypical, but Grace lost her second tooth on Thursday night. And she could use a booster seat, but she never does because I worry she will tumble out. Noah, larger than Grace, to his chagrin, has NOT lost a tooth yet.

So I went for a run in the cold fog this morning and then went to watch my sister's dog-agility class, which was really entertaining. At one point a very excited border collie-type dog ran along the top of the tunnel, instead of inside it! Dogs are fun.

In other news, have some Muppet reboots. I particularly like Rowf as The Dude.