just so you can save some money in your budget. . .

Jenna Bush is apparently writing a book for children:

“The president's daughter, 25, says the book …is aimed at ‘getting kidsthinking and involved’…’there's so much they can do’ to deal withissues of ‘exclusion’ — from research on HIV discriminationto ‘inviting new kids to sit with them in the cafeteria.’"

I'm a little skeptical about this, but she says she's going to donate the proceeds to UNICEF so I do have to give her some credit for that. You can read more here.

unlucky thirteen?

My four-year-old nephew has no concept of the number 13. He seems to be aware that the number 13 exists, but he has no sense of where it belongs. He also understands that there is a number between 12 and 14, but for him that number is 14. In his world, there are two 14s.

The other day we were playing "Bubblegum, bubblegum in a dish" and I told him that I wanted 13 wishes (just to entertain myself). He counted up: "12, 14, 14, 15, 16" getting all the way to 21 before I stopped him. I told him that he'd missed thirteen. He started over: 12, 14, 14.