Half way through his page of multiplication problems, Max looks somewhat stumped, then asks me, "Did you realize you gave me as many problems as there are chocolates in an advent calendar?"

This Little Piggy. Max likes to do Little Piggy with Maria's toes. And yesterday he drew his own conclusion to his question: "Why do they do This Little Piggy with the toes? I guess it's because when you come to the last toe it's the furthest from the top of Maria's head, so the piggy has a long way to go 'weee, weee, weee,' which is her favorite part."