Someday

Piper Finnian is changing every day. She makes hilarious faces now. Riley's favorite Little Munch face is her "game face". Piper scrunches up her cheeks and nose and makes quick breathing noises. It' s much cuter than it sounds. The other kids call this her "guinea face". I don't know how they misunderstood that one.

She laughs hysterically hard any time a sibling falls on the floor. Which is more often than you might think.

She loves pulling every item out of any storage container within grasp. Some of her current favorite people are Jody and Jamal - Look Up friends. London says she likes Jody because he "has some hair but not a lot of hair, like her!"

Recently Finn tried watermelon for the first time - tried it with full fist and open mouth, dripping red stickiness down her chin, her shirt, her booster seat. (We were outside. I have learned a thing or two after five children.) I joked about how much she loved it. London said, in the great Wickstrum tradition, "Piper should marry watermelon! " And then London had a short, simple ceremony and . . . ta-da . . . Piper Finnian Willow and Watermelon were united forever!