Cali, the resident 6-year-old, completed her most demanding school project last night: she wrote a report and made a trifold display board for her first grade science fair project.

Entitled “Graham Cracker Dunk,” it involved putting different kinds of graham crackers in water to see which one was the most resilient, and, therefore, the best for dunking in milk. Her final touch was the cover page for the written report. We suggested to her that she should be creative and that usually one makes the cover illustration relate to the project. She spent 15 minutes on Google Images looking at cute tiger pictures before she settled on the cutest one. When I told her to write the title of her project (in a typeface she likes, called “Spongefont Squaretype”) above the picture, she said, incredulously, “What does that have to do with tigers?” It was awesome.

Am I allowed to tell cute anecdotes about my kids in this otherwise heady and self-promoting art blog? I think I just did.