"Okay," said Stacey. "Dorothy is now definitely out of Munchkinland." She switched off the TV.

"Aw, what are we going to do now?" complained David Michael.

"Play checkers?" suggested Andrew halfheartedly.

"I know!" exclaimed Karen, "We can play 'Let's All Come In.' We have to teach Emily the game." "Let's All Come In" is a game my little brothers and sisters play. Karen invented it, though, and she likes it better than any of the others. She usually has to coerce the others to play with her. That's because Karen takes all the best parts for herself and gives the other parts to everyone else. See, the game is supposed to take place in a hotel lobby. One person (usually me) has to be the clerk at the desk. Another person (usually David Michael) has to be the bellman (bellperson?), who takes people's luggage to their rooms. Karen gets to play all the guests, or to assign guest roles to Andrew and Emily. She always makes them play the roles like babies or pet dogs or something.

Anyway, since everyone dresses up and changes costumes frequently for "Let's All Come In," no one minds the game much. In fact, I think they like it, but they just won't admit it.

"Costumes, everybody!" cried Karen as soon as Stacey and the others had agreed to play.

They trooped upstairs to the playroom, where the most incredible box of dress-up clothes sits. Honestly. When I first met Watson and his kids, I couldn't believe the stuff in this playroom - and Andrew and Karen only visited their father two weekends a month. David Michael and Emily didn't even live in this house yet.

As you can imagine, in the trunk are costumes like you'd expect to see only in the fanciest toy store. So David Michael suited up in a pretty impressive bellman's uniform, and then Karen directed the others in their costuming.