Logic

Do you know of anyone who would go to the lengths of outright bribery to assure good pictures for a photo shoot?  Yes, you do.  Me.  I had promised Rebecca ice cream and a special surprise if she smiled nicely and was very good and cooperative for the picture session on Saturday (fortunately, the other two were teenagers and I didn't think I'd need that much coercion for them).  She promised she would, and she kept her promise, so I kept mine.  One of her most cherished Christmas gifts was a Zhu Zhu pet -  something that I bought totally without knowing what it was but just knowing that it was the hard-to-find toy of the season.  When I saw it pop up on a website I was shopping in the middle of the night, I ordered it on a whim.  She loved that crazy thing.  They had come out with new ones, including some "girl" hamsters, so that was Rebecca's pay-off reward for the good pictures.  Thus, "Jilly", a pink Zhu-Zhu pet with a tiara and tutu came to live with us.

Because the Easter Bunny doesn't come to our house on Easter Sunday until he knows we've gone to Mass, we had a little extra time on Easter morning to contemplate what the Easter Bunny might have brought Rebecca while we were driving home from breakfast after church.  As we drove, she pondered whether the Easter Bunny might have brought her another camera, like the one she got for Christmas. I told her that she already had one camera, so she didn't need another one just like it.  She said, "Well, I already have one hamster too but now I got two of 'em. Maybe I can have two cameras too."