If you want to know the difference

between a ladybug and a dinosaur, here is how you can tell. A ladybug has 6 legs and also some spots. And you draw them differently.

Noah also said he wants to practice eating ice cream and practice eating cookies also. Is there anything he can do that needs practicing so we can get ice cream?

We were walking home from school the other day and Noah found some things that were being given away. There was a purple headband with feathers, and a striped necktie and then he found a nickel on the street, and wanted to put it somewhere. He decided it would go on the petals of a little flower, and then someone would find it later and be happy.

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Aviva today

Wah!

Aviva is upset about everything. It's possible she's sick or getting sick, but the fact still remains that she is three years old. She's very three. Last night she had a fit because she wanted to pee with Daddy. He went to her and she cried because she wanted to pee with Mama. So Mama went to her she was angry and so sad because she wanted Daddy. This went on for a long time, and then she cried for another reason. That reason wasn't what she wanted so the opposite of the reason was. And it's not just crying, but it's flopping on the ground and going limp and screaming and crying.Then suddenly she gets distracted with something and she stops crying. She's playing by herself and talking and it's all good. And then something happens to bring on a new fit.

Very decorative

Noah likes the word "decorative," and he uses it correctly, more or less. He said he likes to look at the decorative clothes that his classmates wear to school. And he wanted the yellow cup with decorative designs, instead of the plain glass one. I'll add other ones; they happen throughout the day.

tomorrow and a murder plot

Aviva wants to know if now is tomorrow and if not is today tomorrow and if not when is tomorrow? 

Noah has told me about his plans to get away with murder when he is an adult. He will find a boy who does not belong to anyone and kill him with a necklace (by strangling him) and put him in the car, on the ground so no one can see, and make sure he brings the necklace so the police can not get fingerprints. When he told me it did not seem so gruesome but reprinting it, I am a little scared. 

Just so you know

Aviva's birthday is in January. She's going to be 4 years old. She's going to have a birthday party and invite the girl from down the street, and there's going to be cake! A chocolate cake, and she's going to be 4 years old. In January. She's going to have another birthday in January and she'll be this many fingers. Now she's this many fingers but soon she'll be this many.

Everyone knows this - the casheir at the grocery store, the library attendant, anyone we come in contact with, and many many strangers on the street. Aviva tells this to everyone, to make sure everyone knows.

Also, when she eats food, you could open her stomach and see all the food inside. This whole bagel is mushed up inside. And if you opened her, you could see. But that would hurt and she would cry. But then Mama would hold her and it would be okay.

And at her friend's house last week, there was a dog she saw that was a big little dog and it wanted to eat her. But sometimes it didn't want to eat her and sometimes it did. And it was sitting on the couch by itself and it was nobody's dog. And she doesn't want the dog to eat anyone, because then she would be sad. She doesn't want the dog to eat her, or anyone in our family. And not any of our friends, too, and not our friend Evan. And if the dog did eat her, she would cry because it hurts. But she'd be okay.