Speaking of holidays...

I'm reading over the materials from Edith's school in preparation for her first day tomorrow. It's a shame she was too young to attend the first two months: According to the curriculum, they studied the letter "E" last week. It's too bad she missed that one.

And she missed Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah (I guess at a seminary daycare you don't get those days off, but you do study them). And United Nations Day, too, which her father will particularly regret.

On the other hand, it looks like they'll be learning about Election Day, which is good. They'll also be learning about pressing on and off buttons, which of course could have wider applications with all kinds of buttons. I wonder, for example, if they'll combine the two lessons and have the babies crawling into simulated voting booths to cast their ballots. The real question is whether Edith will vote for Corzine or Forrester...

Looking ahead, I see that in addition to celebrating the birthdays of Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington, they also fete A.A. Milne, Dr. Seuss, and Mother Goose. When you think how many states there are in the union still not enlightened enough to give people the day off for Winnie-the-Pooh, you realize what a progressive school this is.

And Edith's Bestemor (a.k.a. grandmother) will be delighted to know that there are not one but two School Spirit Days later this year, so we'll be sure to send Edith prepared to share the school fight song Bestemor wrote. To be sung when up against the P.U. daycare kids:

Drool and slobber, clutch and clobber,
P-T-S-D-C!
Grab the ball now,
Start to crawl, how
Mad we'll make those Tiggers be! Their
Huggies leak, their
Boos don't peek, let's
Chew up all their toys!
Poop on their pop-up books
and MAKE MORE NOISE!