Word of the Day: sophistry A few weeks ago, Patrick and I had a special mommy and Patrick day out after my prenatal apointment. I figured that there was too much 'Penelope this, Penelope that' and Patrick might appreciate some time to do whatever he wanted to. So we went to the mall and he picked out a book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, for me to buy him, got some pizza, looked at hermit crabs, got a cookie to share. Patrick thoroughly enjoyed himself, for which I am thankful. He also loves the book I bought him. I remember loving that same book as well, and I have distinct memories of being in kindergarten and being given blank pictures of the animals to color and make our own version of the book. For the first few days, he made me read it to him until I couldn't take it anymore. After a couple of weeks of reading it to him, he'd memorized the book. The other morning, he came to wake me up and told me that he'd read his book to me. So I rolled over and he laid down next to me and read me his book, front to back. I was just happy all day about that. Last week, I made a resolution. I noticed that most of the trash I was taking out that day was water bottles and boxes, and I thought, 'I've got to be able to recycle some of this. I mean, we'd only have to take out the trash once a week if we recycled all the bottles only.' So I did some internet research and discovered that pretty much the only things you can recycle here in Victoria are plastic water bottles, cardboard and pasteboard, paper, and steel and tin cans. Pretty much anything with #1 or #2, and that's it. So I set up a Rubbermaid tub in the pantry for our recycling and told Patrick that when I ask him to put something in the recycling box, that's where it belonged. It's kind of annoying because with the bottles you've got to take off the labels and cut off the bottoms, and they need to be crushed as well. It's time consuming a bit. But it's nice to not have to take out the trash every couple of days. Also, I finally made my appointment with the Woodhouse for my spa package in September. I'm so excited about it, I decorated the day on the calendar. Yeah, that's me being excited.