Two Minutes of Awesomeness

Please don’t forget to check out my scrumptious new niece and her big brother here, but I just saw this on Mr. Nice Guy’s site and you must go and watch it (btw, the beginning starts off a bit funky but, no, there is nothing wrong with your computer).

Turn up the volume and get ready to do some funny dancing in your seat.

My Tough Little Niece

A fair number of family and friends-of-the-family check this blog out from time to time, so I wanted to share a few more photos of my delicious little niece who was born the other day.

Here she is with her arm in bandages, but beautiful nonetheless.


One thing I didn’t mention in my post about her birth is that when she was born, her arm was wrapped around her neck. This caused her poor little elbow to fracture as she was coming down the chute. Fortunately, she is a trooper and has already healed herself! So advanced for her age!

Here is the big brother, my adorable nephew, holding his new sister.

I love how he is looking at her. He has no idea that someday she will eat his Halloween candy.

Wait. . .is she saying something? He leans in to hear better, and. . .


. . .she eats his nose. Ahhhhh, siblings.

Keep Your Friends Off the Pole

Good God, I just caught a segment on The Today Show that said that suburban moms are now hosting “Pole Dancing” parties in their home (new! see the video segment here).

In this piece, they showed a bunch of women standing in a circle around a silver pole set up in someone’s living room. These moms awkwardly danced to the music while one mom slithered up and down the pole in an attempt to unleash her inner sexual goddess, or something like that.

Am I the only one who would rather plunge a sharp stick in my eye than get together with my neighbors for one of these parties? I can just imagine bumping into the Mr and Mrs at the local restaurant and hearing, “wow, Bill, you should’ve seen Fairly Odd Mother work that pole last night”.

My daughters would be so proud.