Eddie loves his family

How do I know? Because he told us so. Tonight, he crawled into bed and announced, very sweetly, "I luff my famwee." He then proceeded to toss, turn, get up and otherwise fight sleep for an hour. Still, he wins on style points.

Today we celebrated President's Day in the traditional way. We went swimming at the Y then snuck Chicken Nuggets and candy into the theater where we watched "Curious George." It was a very enjoyable flick, though truth be told I think the boys would have been enthralled even by "Out of Africa" had they been allowed such free and easy access to popcorn and red vines. After it was over, as we walked out of our aisle, Eddie came across a soda pop sitting in the cup holder of some stranger. Naturally, before we could stop him he put his little lips around this stranger's straw and took a swig of God Knows What. Our protestations only served to make him burst into tears once outside the darkened theater and announce "My fee-wins are hurt!" Meanwhile, I'm convinced he's probably contracted the Bubonic Plague or something from the straw. It doesn't help that they had lice education material out at Childwatch at the Y the other day because a kid was there with lice a few days ago. Now this. I can only imagine that in the 4:10 showing of "Curious George" in Auburn we had a herpetic, (Is that a word?) syphillitic crack-whore with a bad case of Hoof in Mouth Disease drinking a large soda a few seats over from us and I didn't even notice. I may need to invest in a bubble to keep them in. Or at the very least some nifty Tyvek suits.

So far, he's symptom free but it can only be a matter of time. At any rate, after the movine, the boys came home and recreated their favorite scene in the movie by fingerpainting, including a bit on the wall ala George the Curious. It's a good thing that A. They are cute and B. Someone out there invented washable fingerpaints.