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Alexism of the day:

Alex: If you lived in ancient Egypt, you'd really want to have a back windshield wiper.
Me: Why?
Alex: (in tone suggesting that she is too polite to preface her comment with "you idiot") Because it hardly ever RAINS in Egypt!
Me: ...
Me: ...Oh yeah. We don't need a back windshield wiper, because the rain washes our back window clean.
Alex: Yeah.

I really love the way this kid draws connections between things.

In other family news, Colin has found his feet. And his legs, which are also fun to hold. He is very, very, very pleased with himself.

Well, that was unpleasant.

We fired her. We said that it was a bad fit and not improving. She denied ever saying anything about the devil, recast the God story to make Alex's comment about the emperor of China the beginning of the conversation, and predicted that when we try with someone else we will find that Alex simply adjusts poorly to being left and none of this was her fault.

I can't think of anywhere else that Alex would have heard of the devil. We're very careful about media exposure, and her classmates all come from secular families.

We gave her a week of severance pay.

I feel surprisingly crappy for someone who just did the right thing for her child.