Conspiratorial Glances

This has been happening for at least a year now, but whenever her brother, cousins, extended family, friends, and even complete and total strangers do things, say things, or are dressed oddly or inappropriately, we get

The Glance

Where Lydia and I would just glance at each other, Anne gives us

The Glance

Sometimes it is is accompanied with a mouth click. "Tsk" - Glance

There are many different glances that are all categorized under this title.
There's the "my brother is doing something really funny but naughty at the same time so I'm not going to laugh out loud, but I want my mom and dad to know that I know that it's funny - glance." This one is sometimes preceded by the quiet "Dad|Mom, look at me." We look, we see "The Glance"

There is the "Look at the way that kid is behaving" glance. Which is a completely serious look that says, "No way would I get away with acting like that"

There is the "That person is wearing a (short|skimpy|tight|immodest|gross) outfit" glance. Lydia has a near 100% success rate at predicting this glance. She notices the outfit and looks at Anne right as Anne turns her eyes from the offending outfit to Lydia to make sure that she can execute "The Glance" - this one is accompanied by a slightly raised eyebrow.

The glances we see on a daily basis are as varied and diverse as life itself. You can make your own. Just add a kid, with a sense of morality, humor, irony, and a whole lot of legalism and out comes "The Glance"

Once removed from the situation, "The Glance" is resolved either through a group laugh, an explanation, or a reprimand to be more understanding/forgiving of the way other people live.

I've been a-salted with a question

We were at Whole Foods Market yesterday. Anne and Lydia were in the seasonings aisle - Lydia was looking for salt.

Sea Salt.

Celtic Sea Salt
$5.99 a pound Celtic Sea Salt (health benefits and all...)

Lydia, being the fantastic home school mom was telling Anne all about sea salt.

Anne asked, "Does all salt come from the sea?" She paused, then in typical kid fashion, asked another question before waiting for the first to be answered, "Does the sea make pepper too?"

Lydia told her, "No." and before she could answer those two questions, Anne began "peppering" her with more questions about the origins of all spices in the aisle.

"Does the sea make anything else?"
"Like... are all the things on this shelf from the sea?"

First grade will be fun. No, seriously.