Trouble, Yah!

How 'bout an anecdote about each of them before I hit the hay on this late Sunday evening of my birthday (35!)?

• Little A. has always nodded 'yes' or shaken his head 'no' in response to questions. But just over the last few weeks, he has started saying 'yah' instead of nodding. It's not a 'yes'; it's clearly an emphatic, often drawn-out 'yaaahh!' in any kind of situation. For example: "Are you hungry for some cereal?" "Yah!" "What kind of cereal do you want to have?" "Ay-ah-Eeets!" "Mini Wheats?" "Yah!" (Okay, there's just no way that a written description can capture the cuteness of this 'yah'... but you can perhaps imagine a percentage of the cuteness.)

• Apparently in D.'s kindergarten class, kids can get sent back to their desks if they are misbehaving on the carpet. Recently, she admitted (laughingly, sheepishly) that this once happened to her! One of her friends has "fluffy" socks (tube socks, I imagine) and he pulls elastic strings out of the socks to play with, even going so far as to (if I understood correctly) put the elastic string in his teeth. Flossing, I suppose? Anyhow, D was somehow involved in the elastic extraction or she was playing with said elastic and they both got sent to their chairs. She seems jealous of the tube socks because she can't manage to extract elastics from her own socks.