A couple weeks ago I was sifting through pictures and realized that I take a lot of pictures of things that my kids write. I thought I'd begin to share some of them here every so often, even if they're years old. Then I promptly forgot about that plan. But I got a reminder this morning!
I was heading out for a run and Penelope was chalking something down on the sidewalk, which she didn't want me to see. So I honored her request and left without looking. When I came back she was gone (off to a dentist appointment), and since her message was now public-domain graffiti...
I realize that is nearly impossible to read from that picture, so I will translate.
"I Penelope
Durbin
on
December
23 will
get my molers
celed
at 10:00 AM"
And then off to the side, there's:
"Dewy
Leavs"
It looks innocent enough, but I believe this is an elaborate cipher meant for the neighborhood spy network. Clever of her to put it out there in plain view where nobody would suspect a thing...
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In other semi-timely news, Penelope has been working on a Christmas wish list. It's 17 pages long (yes, seventeen). She got ahold of some random toy catalog that came in the mail and wrote down everything in it. And then when that catalog ended up in the recycle bin, she found a Current catalog, and started copying that.
Down at the bottom of the list - the end of page 17, and the last two items - It looks like she finally ran out of catalog and wrote down what she really wishes for.
