That’s what we are.  Well, three of us anyway:  Me, Bonny Annie and Dirty Harry.  Big D and Cap’n Jack Henry are still cool.  Oh wait….Big D has a fascination with LED lights and has been known to wear head lamps.  That leaves the Cap’n as the only cool one left in the bunch.  But, really, it’s just a matter of time for him too.

This is what recently brought out our nerdiness in full force…

A cardboard box.  Not only are we nerds, but we’re losers too.

Okay, not really.  The box was filled with these…

New books!  More specifically, part of our new curriculum for the coming school year.  And you can see, we also have a nerdy dog.  Of course, she has a FaceBook page too, so what did you expect?

Every year when we get this box the kids open it and spread its contents all over the floor.  They like to play this game where I read the titles off the packing slip, and they race each other to find the corresponding book.  I know that we just went up a level of nerdiness by that admission.

You can see there that Cap’n Jack is totally unmoved by the books that surround him.  That is because his sole goal in life at the moment is to try to remove the toys which hang from the bar over his bouncy seat.  They haunt his every waking moment, and they must be destroyed.

And the other two?  Total geeks, the both of them.  Harrison is making no attempt to hide his unadulterated enthusiasm.  He’s practically drooling.  The zealot!  Annaleigh, on the otherhand, who is nearly thirteen, is trying to keep her cool.  But I know better.  Inside her heart is going pitter-pat, her palms are sweaty, her eyes are starting to dialate, and her nose is slightly twitching because it just caught a whiff of that new book smell.  Right after I snapped these photos she was off like the Tasmanian devil.

I know this because it was exactly how I was feeling too.

Books:  they are a disease.