First week of school

In which

• Lily came down with and overcame a fever,
• Elsie fixed her seedless watermelon by embedding peas where the seeds should have been,
• Timmy adjusted to his elder sisters’ absence by adopting Elsie as a full partner in crime,
• Abigail turned 6, ignoring our all the extra gifts we offered her if she would turn 4 instead,
• Kate created and glazed her first clay sculpture,
• Gina came down with Lily’s cold and lost her ability to walk straight for a little while due to inner ear trouble, and
• I wrote chapters 4 and 5.