There was a crew of us here tonight to enjoy an especially engaging sweet B: grandparents, great-grandfather, and great-godparents (if that isn’t a thing, it should be). She called each of us by name, modeled her new shoes, demonstrated her growing vocabulary, instructed her dada in pasta-making, essayed Opposites, drank milk from her mama’s glass, and demonstrated how to stretch an elastic cord while holding one end in your teeth, a skill that can’t be practiced too often.

Some of us will get to see her (and her mama and dada) next weekend, but for now, thank goodness for iChat!