Sam Katz NOT for Mayor 1

Mischief

I was in the kitchen cooking. Things got quiet. Too quiet. This is what I found in the living room when I went to see what the girl was up to.

I asked Eliza to make a face that showed how she felt about the mess she made. This is her face:

Pretty sly.
I made her clean it up.

Some Photos

Watching a movie with all her inanimate friends.

Eliza likes to request that I make pop ups for her. They are tricky to improvise, but here they are from the other day.

And here she is passed out on the floor after school a couple weeks ago.

Flame

Eliza's drawings are improving. It's getting easy to tell when she's just scribbling, and when she's actually drawing something. So when I saw this drawing today, I had to ask her about it.

She told me excitedly, "It's that fire thing!"
"Fire thing...?"
"Yeah! From that art museum!"
We had gone to the art museum for the first time earlier in the week and seen this Dale Chihuly piece in the lobby:

Pretty great.

Statue

Eliza's new game is pretending to be a statue. She stands on her stepstool and holds perfectly still, and then suddenly runs away giggling.

Flower Girl

Eliza's Deal

Tonight we were gathering books for bedtime. I told Eliza we could read three, and she wanted four. So I said we could read three in the chair, and fourth after she got in her bed. She agreed, so I shook her hand and said it was a good deal.
She nodded, and then said, "I have a good deal for you."
"What's that?"
"How about you only shake hands when you meet people, and not other times. That's a good deal."
That's good comedy.