Enormous

The other guy's insurance company has assumed full liability for the crash. They will reimburse my rental car, the car seat (if airbags deploy, get a new car seat), and the cost of the car. They still need to get their assessor to inspect the car and determine how much it was worth. I imagine I'll get some kind of low-ball offer, but who knows.

Back in class today, I apologized to my freshmen for placing them in the ethical quandary of whether to feel bad about my crash or happy that speech day was canceled. They giggled.

In other news, Lyla's new passion in life is putting on her own pants.


She does not yet see the value in first removing the existing pants.

And in still other news, we're starting "Word of the Day" with Lyla, each morning trying to teach her a word that no normal two-year-old would ever know.

"Lyla, say 'enormous'."

"No-muts."

"Eee-nor-muss."

"Eh-no-muss."

"It means BIIIIIIIIIIG!"

"Yeah. BIIIIIIIIG."

"Enormous."

"No-muss."

"Elephants are enormous."

"Yeah."

And so on.

We'll see what she retains. Later this morning, Lyla was upstairs with Julie.

"Lyla, what's the word of the day?"

"Pezzants!"