He's four and a half. I think we're the only ones I know with a perfectly healthy child who still use the baby monitor. It's not that we're concerned about hearing something go wrong - - it's that he can be so blasted funny!

Nearly every night after being in bed a bit we hear the sing-songy "Can someone come up and snuggle with me?"

I know we should probably say no once in a while, but he's still so cute. When one of us goes up, he'll hand over 2 or 3 of his stuffed animals (NOT new bunny, mind you), and inform us which of the "guys" we have to snuggle that night. God forbid he wakes up in the morning and the guys are still there - then you're busted.

'New bunny' is a story unto himself. Not much time - daddy has extracted himself from the grip of the 4 year old - - without a story about Rocky and Merle the flying squirrels - - yet another story - - but we'll talk later about that.