National Chocolate Chip Day

Today was National Chocolate Chip Day, and therefore we had to have chocolate chips.  'Twas a happy chore though!  Daddy raced home to spend a tiny amount of time with the family before heading back to work again, and he was certainly glad he did.  First of all, there was the family.  Secondly, there were the chocolate chip cookies that Mommy was pulling fresh out of the oven.  Soft and warm, these cookies are so incredibly good - you have to have milk with them.  Or something like milk.  Daddy's still trying to figure that out, as he's becoming a bit intolerant of milk.  The funny thing is that Madison doesn't drink it either - each night she drinks a soy milk called "Silk."  It's got extra vanilla flavoring and is really good.  We're not sure when we'll put the bottle up, but she enjoys it and asks for it each night.  And it's really sweet, so who wouldn't ask for it each night?  It's like dessert in a bottle!

Daddy spent much of the day at the office, digging in for a long next few weeks.  Madison and Mommy spent some time together, obviously at home.  There isn't much in the way of homework left to do, although Madison is still writing sentences and improving her penmanship.  She's also drawing still, and cutting out different characters.  And puzzles are exciting her again - which is fun.

She still does that thing in the morning when Daddy makes his way down the stairs.  She tromps to her hiding place just as Daddy reaches the bottom of the stairs (it's nearly impossible for eland Daddy too sneak down stairs).  Then Daddy has to play the game, "Where is Madison?"  Even though it's always the same exact spot each morning.

And then there's the morning made-up story on the way to school.  It never ends.  It has been the never-ending story, one that started out with a camping/birthday trip for DC characters and just went off into a squillion different directions day after day after day.  It is a completely epic tale that never quite gets finished, despite Daddy's best efforts.  It's been noted here before, but now I know how Homer wrote such a long epic tale:  he was probably telling his kids a story that he intended to close up on, and his kids were begging for him to tell more the next day.  And so on and so on.  Next thing you know, there's this "Ilead" thing he's got all mapped out.

Daddy's "Ilead"is by no means as complicated.  Today's installment involved Lego Bane challenging Lego Batman to an epic battle.  Batman is a little nervous.  But then when he confronts Bane, he discovers that Bane simply wants to play a board game with him.  So the two play Candyland, and in fact are joined by the Green Lantern and Batgirl.  Who wins the competition?  You'll have to tune in the next day - same Bat Time, same Bat Channel!