you know, raise kids.
have a good life.
be a good friend.
and try to be completely who you are.
and figure out what you personally love.
and like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.
- angelina jolie

steve is in iraq. steve's sister, teresa, is visiting for a week. this evening, teresa, sky, ryder and i went to visit my dear friend, leah, in orange. volvo is in the shop so we took the jeep wrangler, which has the back window out and is loud as can be. a one and a half hour drive. it's too loud to talk. you just have to try and listen to the music...through the howling of the wind and roar of the traffic. on the way home, around 10 PM, the following transpired:

sky: hey mom....mom.
me: [turns down the radio] what sky?
sky: is that the red hot chili peppers?
me: i don't know who this is?
teresa: [giggling] it is.
me: really?
me: sky, it is red hot chili peppers. how did you know that?
sky: because katie told me so.
teresa and i: look at each other and laugh.

okay. so...i didn't know that the song we were listening to was the red hot chili peppers but my five year old DID. sure, it was because her friend told her BUT her friend is five too. and how did sky retain that most pertinent bit of information after hearing it once. i'm so in trouble in about five or so years.

and so i share this shot...from the other day at the beach. ryder, sky, katie and a family friend.



and man, i so love my kids.