Jenna's Quote of the Day

We were sitting downstairs, still revelling in our post-Yuletide haze, opening selections from the mountain of toys that has collapsed in our living room. I decided to open one present for each of the kids: for Riley, I chose his 1:18 scale Abrams tank, for Mason his Twist and Learn Monkey dumbbells, and for Jenna, her Baby Dora the Explorer.

I opened each, ignoring the dull ache in my fingertips (an injury of repetition, from continuously untwisting those metal wire ties that hold the toys unnecessarily snugly into their packaging), and giving the toys to each child. When I finished the Dora, I announced, "Here's your Dora Baby, Jen."

Her reply: "I not Baby Jen!"