The Princess has taken an interest in starting to read little words, asking me to write words so she can copy them and such, so I was sitting at the table with her this afternoon working on that. She asked a question, and I began to answer her. She immediately looked distracted and I could see she was tuning out (not uncommon) and no longer listening to what I was saying. All the sudden, out of the blue (in the middle of my answer, too) she says, “I’ve got mashed potatoes in my ears!”

Oh. Well, that explains a lot….