2011 ends

All day we've been fielding questions about why the year is ending and what that means and is it going to be summer soon because he hates summer... We let him stay up late. We watched the celebration in New York City on television and I elected not to tell him it was a different time zone. I thought I might get him to sleep before midnight. I was wrong. But we blew our noisemakers and wore our silly hats and wished each other a happy new year at 11, and David went on to sleep. Dennis was up until much later!

Dennis resolves "to do great stuff and eat candy" in the new year. Sounds good to me!