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My friend Karen went into labor this morning and on the way to the hospital they dropped Thomas off at our house. I was curious to see what it would be like being alone with two kids running around the house because lately Dave and I have been having the "Should we have another kid?" conversation. Not that having two boys who were born within weeks of each other, both of whom are now at a fairly reasonable age (meaning that you can reason with them, sort of), is anything like having, say a two year old and a newborn, but you know, I was curious nonetheless.

Since I wasn't sure when Karen's mom was going to be arriving in town, I mapped out the whole day: playtime, lunchtime, movietime, naptime, restofmovietime, playtime, dinnertime, playtime. Little did I know Karen was going to be superwoman and have her baby before the morning was over, but I did get to have Thomas for four hours today and it was a lot of fun. The three of us made play-doh spaghetti, built a fort with tunnels and tents, mastered the harmonica (at least mastered making sounds come out of the harmonica), colored with markers, washed our hands, danced to some music, ate some Spaghettio's, colored some more, washed our hands some more, and generally wreaked havoc, and would you believe somewhere in there I managed to sit down and read some of my book? I only read about four or five pages but still! Hands down the best part was when Thomas' dad showed up and when he asked if he wanted to go home Thomas said "No." And then I got a big hug right before they left.

Feeling pretty darned good over here.