I does what I likes, and I likes what I do.

I went to the beach, and I learned the following:

I used to be afraid of the ocean. I am still completely destroyed by the idea of the giants and mysteries it contains, however, the idea of touching something dead and not knowing it no longer really bothers me, as I'm fairly used to it. In fact, I quite liked swimming out beyond the waves just to give the ocean and all of the things in it ample time to take their revenge if they desired it. Either they didn't, or their plot is an intricate one and they are waiting.

One can't find good seafood in New Jersey, apparently. Disappointment.

Ally likes to explain that she will get older, and that when she does she will get tall. Several other things will happen once these things occur, including her obtaining a motorcycle that is pink with skulls.

Ally also knows that all pirates are girls, and that she loves her new batman and spiderman shirts.

Parker is way too good with babies. She started talking some nonsense about wanting to have some of them, if only because so many people make such terrible parents and not wanting to waste her natural tallents. The crisis was narrowly averted when we watched March of the Penguins and decided to adopt baby penguins and raise them in a snow cone machine.

My mom is sweet. Obviously.

Mary Poppins is the most amazing film of all time. I knew this when I was a child (it and Winnie the Pooh were my favourite films) but I haven't seen it since, and I'd somehow almost forgotten. I'd like to be Bert when I grow up, please. I'll decide whether or not to include that particular accent when I'm older.

Also:

I've not been using the internet much at all. I like to read books. I like you, though. How have you been?

An army.

I forgot all of the important things. There were frogs on the sidewalk at night, and when it got dark Parker and I would walk on the beach, and I wouldn't wear a shirt. I need to find more places where I can be naked outside, because I like it so much. There was almost nothing but cuddling, and it was perfect. We ate the ripest mangoes and cherries and bananas, and there was a fantastic little local market where the cashier there was so kind and excited. We slept in central air conditioning in a gigantic bed.