Lots of things.
Different colors and shapes.
Different sounds.
Sitting up and lying down.
Making noises.
Fun.
Sheila says Thanksgiving and Christmas are family holydays. Her family always goes visiting grandparents on Thanksgiving and the other grandparents on Christmas. But then, they have four grandparents to visit. We don't. Just grandpa, and he lives with us. So no use to visit.
We could go visit Uncle Cal more often, maybe. But mom and dad always have to work, so we can't go on vacation. I mean Sheila's dad works with computers and her mom's a teacher. They don't have to work on holydays. Mom and dad have to, though. See, people die on holydays. And bad guys don't stop doing bad things.
Both mom and dad get some time of on holidays, though not always together. So what. We always get to celebrate Christmas together. Some years at the morgue and other years at the precinct. It's actually really cool. We're all friends at both places and we get to play games with them and Mat and I get presents like other kids at school don't.
Sometimes Uncle Cal comes to visit. He's real cool too. He knows all about the newest computer games and stuff. Like Uncle Nigel. But in a different way. I really like him. He lives in Kewaunee. That's in Wisconsin. You got to get on a plane to get there. That far away it is. Dad lived there too, a long time ago, before he came to Boston.
