All week long A has been looking forward to moving the sun peg on our Portable Stonehenge. It's a wooden disk with thirteen holes in a line down the middle and two circles of fifty-six holes each along the disk's circumference. It's got a day peg, a sun peg, a moon peg, and a moon's north node peg. Every day we move the day peg one hole north along the thirteen holes in a row, and the moon peg two pegs counter-clockwise along the disk's circumference. When the day peg is in hole seven or thirteen, then the sun peg moves counter-clockwise one peg along the circumference. There are three arbitrary spots equidistant from each other along the circumference that when the sun peg lands in them, we move the moon's node peg clockwise.
Anyway, A has been wanting to move the sun peg for the last several days, and today was the day when he could. He knows that today is winter solstice, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't exactly know what that means.
In other news, we're going to try to set up the tree in the living room tonight; we tried to let A help us, but he got so excited that he started hitting things. I don't know how long some of the ornaments we have are going to last this year; our tree may be up for only a short while. I think M has managed to get A to fall asleep, so it's time to string the lights.
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