it seems to me there is a pattern that kids go through where for a long period of time they test every imaginable limit until your just about to toss them on the doorstep of a local orphanage and then at the last moment they redeem themselves with three or four days of the most loving and sweet behavior.

ethan is spoiling us now with one of those redeeming periods and its fortunate for me that he doesn’t realize he could pretty much ask for a pony right now and i’d go out and get it for him.