I was sitting on the stool in the kitchen, very near the door to the upstairs, talking with Kimberly as she cooked dinner.

Suddenly, Priya popped out of the stairway door and came directly at me, like she’d been expecting me to be sitting there. She came at me with four fingers extended, two on each hand–the peace fingers, like a Nixon in attack mode.

“I’m a Tyrannosaurus Rex!”

I almost fell off the stool, laughing.

Shortly thereafter, Elijah came downstairs on all fours. He lunged up at me and grabbed around my waist with both arms. “I’m a mountain lion!”