Today Christina and I finally went on a date, our first in a very long time. Our neighbors, Josh and Sarah, watched Ezra and Anika while we went to a small party with some friends. Ezra was really excited to spend time with his friend, Dylan; so excited, in fact, that he didn't want us to bring him home again. While spending time with Dylan, Ezra was trying to blow bubbles (which usually ends up as a lot of spit in every possible direction). When Sarah told him not to, because his mom and dad did not want him to do that, he replied (playing the parts of himself and Christina): "Ezra time out!" "Ezra all done?" "Mommy say time out!" He repeated this several times, to Josh and Sarah's delight. We think he has a bit of the "class clown" thing going...
Anika's favorite toy is a little knitted cow we got her for Christmas. This morning, while Ezra and Christina were at Ezra's school, Anika played around while I tried to finish the dishes. She held the cow in her hand and laughed when she put it up to her face, giving the cow a few choice slobbers. She would get too excited and jerk her arms away, which would remove the cow from her purview. Immediately, she would start crying until she flailed her arm back around and put the cow in her face again. At this point, she was all smiles again. She repeated this about 50 times before finally deciding that she was all done making the cow go away. This, of course, is a microcosm of her personality--cute as a button, but demanding to a somewhat absurd degree.
In other news, Jonathan was elated today to find that one of his articles, "Governing Moods: Boredom, Anxiety, and the Ontological Overcoming of Politics in Martin Heidegger" was accepted and will appear in the Canadian Journal of Political Science in April. This is great news because it's a top-tier journal and will really help us when we start looking for jobs in the fall. Plus, it's probably the greatest thing ever written. If anyone is interested, you can check it out in April at this address: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CJP#
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