Jie, can we bake cookies today? Can we collect worms in my shoe? Make hot chocolate out of mud? Sing that song again, the one with the bones. I’m a skeleton. I’m a lion tamer! Let’s go to the zoo. Can we play the word game again, Jie? How about this one: Shenandoah. That’s a good one, Mei. Elixir. Ineffable. Gossamer. Defenestration.

