Project Daddy and Cartacarizza's plight

Julia's Little People play is especially interesting today, so I thought I'd share some of what's going on with the characters we've all come to know and love:

As Cartacarizza put her daughter, Sonya Lee, to bed today, she told of the sad story of how she and Project Daddy were without a home in their early years of marriage.

"When Project Daddy and I got married, we started looking for a house to live in, but all the houses were tooken," she said plaintively. "Finally, we came upon this old farm, and no one was living in it, and the farmer who used to live here left his tractor. And we used it, so then we had to live here."

Since Cartacarizza is the mommy of ALL the Little People, it's a good thing the barn is big enough to fit so many children. Here, she and Project Daddy sit with just a couple of their kids:



Now, given the way they dress, with the tiaras and all, you would hardly expect Cartacarizza and Project Daddy to be the kind of people living in an old barn and driving an old tractor around town, but just because they dress like socialites doesn't mean they act like socialites. Here they are on a school morning, ready to fire up the tractor and haul the kids on over to school:



As the saying goes, don't judge a book by its cover. Although it is interesting that their daughter Sonya Lee has her very own car in which to drive herself to school.

Madeleine also engaged in some pretend play today, taking the My Little Ponies for a romp across our piano. She has clearly done her homework and learned all of names given to the ponies by Julia (both those whose names come from the show/books, and those whose names were lovingly dreamed up by Julia herself.) Here's a video of some of the pony adventures: