I want daughters. I want to raise smart, capable, independent women. Don't know how successful I would be, but I do know I would look at them the same way as Jilli's dad does to her. You know, the whole his revenge upon the world thing.

That's *practically* a cat.

Not practically enough for me. I am quite keen on pugs. But mainly because they're entirely stupid. Which is very un-cat-related.

There's a compromise position. I mean, look at him: [link] . That's *practically* a cat.

Or one of these. [link]

hey, anyone know what the leetspeak word "RBI" means? The only thing I can think of is baseball?

Dear Pediatrician's Receptionist -

When the parent of a patient calls you, and is crying and asking for a referral to a child psychiatrist, please don't just say, "Call your health insurance provider." Your doctor gave us the dx. I can't be the first person to ask for this.

No love -
Aims

Of course, I don't think I've seen your DH, so it probably wouldn't happen to you, but don't think it couldn't happen!

Hee. Well, I suppose blue eyes could happen. But his hair is dark like mine, and his skin color is actually close to mine as well. Which is one of the things that makes me roll my eyes when people discriminate according to skin tone. Get it right, people!

After about a year we found out that she was pregnant with identical twin boys, which is pretty cute because we both do research with twins and we met at a twin research conference ten years ago.

Ahahahaha! Rick, congratulations, and it's good to see you!

Man, I am wiped out. First day on new job. Have this place pwned.

Plus children generally don't fetch or bat at objects you dangle in front of them.

Depends on the kid and the object, I guess. Dangle a Supernatural S5 dvd set in front of me, and I might bat at it myself.

Go, Nora!