Colors

Olivia and I got out the box of 64 crayons and all of the coloring books tonight. I love using the box of 64. I love all the choices. I was coloring a Christmas tree, so I started searching for the crayon called "Evergreen." I remember it well from my childhood. But it no longer exists. I looked at every green. Not there. It has been replaced by "Asparagus." Do you think maybe we're taking this health-craze thing too far when Crayola crayons are being named after vegetables? Anyway, I was looking for a picture to color, and Olivia suggested one of a giraffe and a monkey. I told her I didn't want to color that because it didn't have very many colors. Her reply: "Well Mommy, you don't have to color them brown. You can use whatever color you want. The giraffe could be purple. Besides, that shows up better on white paper." She's a genius. So I colored my giraffe purple and my monkey blue. I started to color the giraffe's spots "Yellow orange" but it's apparently called "Macaroni and cheese" now. But I checked and "Sky blue" is still "Sky blue." Thank goodness.

4 more days 'til Disney :0) School's out :0) I've got a lot of laundry to do :0(

Olivia's prayer tonight at dinner: "Thank you for our food. Thank you for our drinks. Thank you for our cousins. Heal the people who are sick. And help Adam have a good day at school if he ever goes back to school." (I guess that's probably only funny if you know Adam, but we hadn't even talked about him, so apparently it was just on her mind.)