Bravery

Hazel had to go to get a scan done on her luxating knee, so, with great trust on her side and greater trepidation on ours, we were Laurie's first ever babysitters this afternoon. He has grown and is lively, and, yes, voluble. For the duration, our house was filled with expressed breast milk and CDs of African lullabies.

Marian's never-really-submerged protective streak came to the surface several times.