Recent Miscellany RE: Daughters

• While eating a sub sandwich the other day, Suzanna had the experience of biting into the bread and having the meat, cheese, etc., pop out the opposite end of the bread while she bit. She told me that the "insidings" were coming out.
• A few weeks ago, Suzanna was working on a music theory exercise as part of her practice for piano lessons. I came home to find her pondering her theory book at the piano. She asked me for help, saying, "What are 'two-inds'?" Not knowing what "two-inds" were, I asked her to show me in the theory book. The page was teaching her about steps on the keyboard--particularly 3rds and 2nds, the latter of which she pronounced as "two-inds."
• I came home from work last week to hear the girls engaged in much activity in the basement. I went downstairs and found the furniture pushed to the walls and Suzanna and Abigail in shorts and sleeveless T-shirts, wrestling! They were reenacting what they had seen the high school wrestlers doing days earlier. Hillary was involved, too. Her older sisters had given her one of their pink alarm clocks--with a second-/minute-/hour-hand face that she can't yet read--and told her to keep track of two-minute intervals (the time allowed in each round of high school wrestling). Hillary was also to get down on the floor (as the ref had done at the high school match) and check to determine whether one sister had indeed pinned the other's shoulders flat on the floor, and, if so, to call the victory for her. They were having a blast.
• All three girls will perform in the musical Once on This Island (Junior) with Valley Middle School in Grand Forks, ND next week at the Empire Arts Center. The director asked Abigail and Hillary to play children (what else?) needed at the end of the play, and she asked Suzanna to play the younger version of a main character. Suzanna has lines and appears throughout the play, so she attends a few more rehearsals than her sisters. They're all excited, however, and seem to enjoy working with the middle schoolers and the production team. (The director works at our church and is a family friend, but she's the only person they really knew before joining the cast.)