Heroes

Madeleine's class is learning about heroes this week.  And I am proud to announce that Ethan and I made the cut and we are now someone's hero:

Never mind that my nose appears to be a cock-and-balls, or that Madeleine drew Ethan in his scruffy, unshaven glory, or that we appear to be conjoined at the head.  If we are her heroes, she can depict us HOWEVER she darn well pleases. 


Julia is busy creating her OWN heroic characters, both on the page and off.  Today she is staying after school to play with her two friends/co-creators of Ju-Sa-Lil.  This play-date has been in the works for quite some time; the three friends are simply going to stay on the school playground after dismissal, with the mom of one of Julia's friends as chaperone, while the girls enact Ju-Sa-Lil to their hearts' content.  Why the need to play this game on the playground rather than at someone's house?  Julia explains: "Because the big ROCK on the playground is, like, kind of like the PERFECT thing to be the INSIDE of the Earth."

And Lord knows you can't play Ju-Sa-Lil without being in the inside of the Earth.  That's where all the action happens in the future, OBVIOUSLY.

I'm telling you, the Ju-Sa-Lil franchise is going to be BIG.  Julia can't stop thinking about this character and her Inner Earth world.  In fact, over the weekend, Julia made a list of things to do, one of which was: "Daydream about Ju-Sa-Lil."  So I can already see that even bigger and wilder things are yet to come in the Ju-Sa-Lil world!

2015: An Inner Earth Odyssey!