Shawn pulled a chair and sat down. "Nicole, has Mommy been with you all evening?"

"Yeah, she's been working on her sketches, and I've been drawing my pictures."

"Do you find Mommy behaving a bit strangely?"

Nicole shook her head. "No, Daddy. You're the one who's strange."

Shawn was taken aback. "I'm strange?"

Nicole pointed to the figures in the painting. "Daddy, look. This is Joshua, my big brother. He has to stand here. We can't paint him to be somewhere else."

Seeing Shawn's furrowed br