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As of October 31, we have taken more than 13,500 digital pictures! Yikes

OK, I guess it’s official: Jocelyn is a big fan of Kaya! Kaya is a young girl from the American Girl series, and she’s a member of the Nez Perce tribe, living in 1764 (in what would later become Idaho and Oregon). Her family and friends are strong characters in the book collection, and Kaya also loves and respects animals.

Jocelyn has already read all of the original series of Kaya books, and seems ready to begin reading the Kaya mystery collection. She is very intrigued by the lives of Native Americans, and believes she does have her own personal wyakin, or guardian spirit.

Keep track of your spare change! Because if you leave it around our house, Felicia will find it … and then she’ll deposit it into Jocelyn’s piggy bank. Jocelyn has collected a little more than $30 in her piggy bank, saving for a few special things. Felicia knows about the collection, and loves playing with it. When we are able to supervise her (and keep her from putting pennies in her own tummy), she’ll repeatedly empty the piggy bank and refill it.

Now that she knows what to do with coins, she’s very focused. More than once this week, she’s seen some coins on a table or on the kitchen counter, and she has been very insistent. She picks them up and heads straight to Jocelyn’s room, where she deposits the money in her sister’s bank!

We’ve discussed Jocelyn’s love of waffles before, but this might be bringing things to a whole new level. Earlier today, while eating her usual toaster waffles for breakfast, Jocelyn nibbled a bite here and a bite there, and then declared, “This one looks like Mary.” Yes, that Mary. Unfortunately, we failed to alert the media before the vision was consumed by more nibbling.

By virtue of her good timing, Karen was featured in the October edition of TrendsHealth Magazine, a Chinese-language monthly published in China.

A reporter married to a Crossbow employee was doing a feature on material buyers, and Karen was visiting the Chinese office in July in time for the press deadline.

You can read the entire magazine online at www.health.trendsmag.com. You’ll need to have the Chinese language characters support on your computer’s operating system, and it would help if you also had the language installed in your brain. Enjoy!

The San Jose Sharks are back on the ice, along with the rest of the NHL. I took Jocelyn to a game on Saturday, and together we watched the Sharks beat the Chicago Blackhawks, 4-3.

We took the bus to the game, and played on the Arena Green playground before going inside. Armed with our hot dog and pretzel dinner, we watched the game unfold from our seats. Jocelyn is definitely able to watch hockey and follow the action now, and that makes the games even more fun. We talked about the rule changes and game strategies, and had a really nice evening.