Parentheticals

This week, we tried to resume normal life after all the vacation excitement. Alison is in charge of teaching the preschool co-op this month, so she is organizing everything for the kids to play restaurant at our house. It's been a very messy process; the kids made personal pizzas on Tuesday (coating the kitchen in flour) and made burgers from homemade play dough on Thursday (getting play dough stuck everywhere). The kids have been enjoying it, although Timothy would like more attention than he gets when all the kids are over. Alison has been focusing on helping Timothy learn to crawl and other skills. Timmy can now pull himself along the floor if he's in a good mood and really wants to get somewhere. It works best on carpet; we have no carpet. He will also get up on all fours and rock, so he's probably within a few weeks of actual crawling. Both Alison and Timmy have been enjoying their regular daily practice sessions very much. So she decided to try to work more with t...