CLOSE SHAVE

As yet another night has come, the boys have fought us on the whole going to bed before midnight topic. It's summer break, so we're not pushing back too hard.

When I carried Allegra up to her crib and laid her down, I went in to say another "good night" to the boys. Tobin was actually in the toy room, and as he walked in, I saw something on his face. Figuring they'd snuck downstairs for cookies or something, and knowing Tobin's tendencies to mimic Pigpen, I guessed it would just be food. But when I turned his face up toward me, I was what it really was. Whiskers.

Blane had been kind enough to use a ball point pen to draw a mustache and go-tee on his little brother. Tobin proudly explained, "I have a mustache and beard!" Clearly.