[Sing Theme From 'Jaws' Here]

Harrison's been obsessed with sharks lately.

It all started with a science book dedicated to sharks that we've been reading every night at bedtime for the past couple of weeks. We've learned a lot!

Harrison's favorite is the cookiecutter shark. If you read the wiki entry, you'll see that it gets its name from "its habit of removing small circular chunks of flesh" from other sea creatures. Harrison finds this gruesome fact fascinating.

(Me, I'm partial to the beauty-challenged goblin shark. )

Yesterday, Doug came home with a library haul of shark books and a National Geographic shark video, which we sat down to watch after bathtime. YIKES. The opening segment was about the myth that sharks are vicious predators of man and contained some scenes from Jaws (read: helpless swimmers being viciously attacked). The video dispelled the myth by showing, of course, that man was the predator, and sharks the victims (read: footage of sharks being harpooned and caught and clubbed on fishing vessels).

Needless to say, I want to swim in the lake this summer, so we told Harrison that the video was broken, popped in Charlotte's Web, and that was that.

Griffin Plays With Claude

Lunch

1. Peas

2. Wheat bread

3. Muenster

4. Clementine

YUM!

At Least He Tried to Clean It

S: What happened to the shirt you were wearing this morning when you went to school?

H: Miss Legenhausen said I had to change it.

S: Did you get water on it?

H: Yes.

S: What happened?

H: I sneezed, and then I wiped my nose on my sleeve like this [demonstrates], then there were boogers on my sleeve, so I washed my shirt in the sink, and then my shirt was wet, so Miss Legenhausen said I had to change it.

S: Nice.

Shorn