Awww... I loved my boys as babies, but they were most fun for me when they started talking and walking. I can still see in my mind Virgil lying in his crib at naptime, playing with his toes and saying "sister" over and over, for the pure joy of saying the word - ssssisssster! ;-)

I used the body-halter and leash arrangement on long walks when they were little. My guys were independent from the start, heading in different directions, but they loved the fact that a tumble would leave them dangling safe and sound, and not flat on the ground and perhaps hurt. It may have looked like I was playing puppet master, but that's not what was happening at all.

Laundry is on hold while a weather front goes through today. I'm off to the dairy, which is almost 15 miles away, but Trader Joe's is on the way, so I'll get some food shopping done, too. Later, I've got to dig through dishes. I found a set of 18 cups, saucers, and dessert plates, with no dinner plates in one pattern. I hope to find them under the plates in the boxes of other patterns upstairs.