{"id":123,"date":"2004-06-18T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2004-06-19T04:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-06-18T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2004-06-19T04:16:38","slug":"visitors-from-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/18\/visitors-from-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors From the North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, it&#8217;s not the <a href=\"http:\/\/campus.northpark.edu\/history\/WebChron\/WestEurope\/Huns.html\">Huns<\/a> invading. Or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barenakedladies.com\/\">Canadians<\/a>. On Thursday, Michelle&#8217;s sister-in-law Jaimie arrived with daughter Faith for a couple of days&#8217; visit.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clank.org\/blog\/archive\/Picture%25284%2529%2520scaled.jpg?resize=120%2C160\" height=\"160\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" alt=\"Faith at 16 months\" border=\"0\" \/> The little tow-headed cutie sure can be a handful to get to bed. Maybe it&#8217;s the chocolate ice cream we pumped into her; maybe it&#8217;s the strange environment; maybe it&#8217;s too dark, I don&#8217;t know. Or maybe it&#8217;s the fact that she&#8217;s in the room with Shaelin&#8230; nah, couldn&#8217;t be. I think our working theory is that they both egg each other on. It gets old after it&#8217;s gone on for a couple of hours, though.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clank.org\/blog\/archive\/Picture%25288%2529%2520scaled.jpg?resize=120%2C160\" height=\"160\" width=\"120\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" alt=\"Regan's ice cream face\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n I was hoping to capture Faith in the act of taking a bite of ice cream. Unfortunately she seems a bit camera shy. I threw out at least 3 pictures of her tonight, some of them with Jaimie, because she either turned away or put a hand in her face to hide. It sure was cute! But alas, it doesn&#8217;t translate well into a photo. Believe it or not the photo on the right is from the final bite of ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Where Faith was pretty clean by the end, Regan (at left) couldn&#8217;t keep ice cream off her face to save her soul. Well, <em>maybe<\/em> in an extreme case like that, but let me tell you, it&#8217;s pretty hard for her. She can sooner stay quiet and go to sleep than she can keep from getting messy with ice cream. If you&#8217;re wondering what the red circle is, that would be the cherry dip that she got tonight. Don&#8217;t ask me how she thinks up ways to get messy&#8230; I don&#8217;t know where it comes from.<\/p>\n<p>I think maybe it was Regulans. That&#8217;s where it comes from. Regulans. You know, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.wisc.edu\/~dolan\/constellations\/hr\/3982.html\">Regulus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, it&#8217;s not the Huns invading. Or the Canadians. 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