The quest to catch up continues: today, we uploaded the pictures from our trip to Chicago last Thanksgiving. You can find them here.

We’re not only about stale pictures, though. Last week, Julia took the first test of her budding academic career and got a perfect 20 out of 20. Of course, the test was actually a fundraiser (the “Spell-a-thon”), for which parents were supposed to pledge a dollar amount for each correct answer, so I suspect the school’s motives weren’t entirely academic in nature. But, still: 20/20!

Having read the foregoing, you might be wondering, “Spell-a-thon? How many words can a four-year-old spell?” You certainly wouldn’t be alone in doing so. As it turns out, in order to make sure that the Junior K kids didn’t miss out on the Spell-a-thon experience, they were given a short oral exam featuring questions like this:

• What number is this? 5
• What letter is this? B b
• What shape is this? (imagine a little square here)
• Tell me something red:

It probably says something that Julia’s answer to the last question was “blood,” but we haven’t quite figured that one out yet.