Lily kept climbing up to the top of a bookshelf to play with a tea set there despite her mother's best efforts,
Elsie, on hearing Gina say that she and Julia were becoming fast friends turned to me with one eyebrow up and one down and said "Yes, Julia is the fastest friend in the world. But when I run she can't catch me. We're fast friends."
Timmy helped the girls make many complicated rail road tracks,
Abby wrote her mother a nice note thanking her for the chance to help make dinner,
Kate lit up on hearing a Rosetta stone commercial, excited about learning a language in just weeks,
Gina applied syrup to 200 or so pancakes, and
I got to turn most of those pancakes on the griddles.
