Two!

How old are you, Amália?

-TWO!

Yep, our little one has officially begun the Terrible Two's, although she has been working on that for some time. I really don't understand the "terrible two's" notion. It would seem that if a parent is shocked by this stage of a child's learning, he was asleep for the prior two years. The desire to define and test limits is really a natural outgrowth of the explorations that started about two weeks after birth (let's face it, it takes about two weeks to catch one's breath after that experience. Then we can start to really take in the world).

We asked Amália what she wanted for her party, and the constant response has been "blue cake." So Melanie has the charge of making blue cake today. I don't envy her this task. Cakes are by nature yellowish, so blue coloring tends to make them, well, sort of dirty teal. We will see tonight what solution Melanie has come up with.

The other request we have been getting fairly constantly is SAUSAGE! So we will have plenty of sausage on the grill.

This weekend we will be in Sacramento for the family birthday party. More Blue Cake, more SAUSAGE!, maybe a trip to the California State Railroad Museum, which to a choo-choo obsessed toddler must be something else. It actually is so great in its choo-choo-ness, that we have been resistant, not wanting to over stimulate with sheer choo-choo delight, but now that Amália is a big girl, we may have to relent.

So, since lunch is fast approaching its end, and I am leaving early today to prepare for the big event, that is all the blog gets from me today!