I have many excuses for the lack of postings lately, including tiredness, laziness, computer problems, and a husband who has been working almost every evening and weekend since February. (Julian works on the same PC on which our photos are also stored, which is why this posting has no photo attached.)
Charlotte would like to wish everyone a happy Earth Day! She has learned all about what she can do to save the Earth. More specifically, she has learned all about what I should be doing to save the Earth. She had a complete meltdown yesterday when I did not let her walk to school. "Now all the fish in the oceans will die and we'll never be able to eat fish again!" I promised that we would walk one day before the end of the school year. It may only be a mile and a half, but we usually run late even when it's just a 5-minute drive.
Charlotte's other fascination at the moment is looking up words in the Oxford English Dictionary. She then writes them on a slip of paper with the page number so that she can find them more easily the next time. This fascination has worked to my advantage though. She insisted that she learned about "syllable-cation" in school yesterday. I showed her "syllabification" in the dictionary and she actually believed me without a fight.
Alexander asked me yesterday, "will you be dead when I'm 15?" I responded that I hoped to still be alive and we discussed what my age would be. So he stated with certainty, "well then you'll be dead when I'm a grown-up." I reminded him that I'm a grown-up and my mother is still alive, so there's hope that his mother will be too. He has been finding me very boring lately, so I hope it's not wishful thinking on his part.
Kevin, Sári, Tonka, Mária, Téa, Krisztina 
