holiday cheers!

so we go on bragging about how many readers we have ... and then we go dark. not very blog-couth of us. we do hope, dear reader, you will forgive the absence of yesterday's entry.

and to make it up for you ... hopefully an entertaining vignette:

a favorite game for jack now is "cheers!" he will declare "cheers" and konk his sippy cup against whatever vessel you are using to drink. sometimes it's a scalding mug of coffee ... sometimes a fragile paper cup brimming with sticky soda -- no matter. jolly jack wants to "cheers" and "cheers" again. he even finds people along the way to do "cheers" with.

then, one day he realized: he could "cheers" himself.

it just required two cups ...

... banged together ...

... again and again ...

so "cheers" to you.

and happy holidays to one and all!