Sunny loves spending time doing errands outside with her big brother Magnu, but some days (when the weather is as unrelentingly awful, a phrase which here means 'really bad', as it is today) she prefers to spend time doing indoor errands with her daddies (a phrase which here means, 'sitting around snuggling and reading books together').

There's a knock at the door though, and Sunny immediately jumps out of Far's lap, scattering First Quigley and Second Quigley and her creepy doll and her half-gnawed wooden duck onto the floor. "I get it! I wanna get it!" she says as she runs to the door, the gentle thudding of her feet muffled by the thick house socks with grippy bottoms she's wearing. She wipes her runny nose on her arm before she reaches uuuuuuuuup to the doorknob to open the door, and is face to face -- or rather face to knees, with "Susan?"

Why is Susan here? With a wagon of groceries? "You went grocey shopping?"