Sue, lack of pollination is becoming a persistent problem in North America generally, because of the bee collapse. Our local garden expert is recommending planting flowers that are attractive to bees, like salvia and agastache, among squash and cucumbers. Tomatoes just need insects landing on the flowers to disturb the pollen, since they're self-pollinating. That's why I find myself in the garden vibrating the tomato flowers. Yes, my only sex life is with my plants.

Should I vibrate the plants? I have flowers and no tomato!

Well Babble isn't exactly a respected peer-reviewed scientific journal. (Though I do agree with her that rice cereal going and staying out of style can only be a good thing. If we want kids to learn to want solids, why are we feeding them mushy rice???)

Nope. It's just funny that the first comment is about her qualifications. Rice cereal is a bit confounding but Noah liked it (and would eat all sorts of rice, except fried rice every day 3 meals if allowed) and it's a useful grain for Grace.

Rice cereal is so foul. I offered it, especially with Jake, because I was young and he was my first, and that was what (I was told) you did, but I didn't push it with Ben or Sara.

The only things we were ever careful with were eggs, peanuts, and honey, but we don't have any food allergies in the family.

I'm also snorting aloud while reading Catalog Living.

I'm sort of careful around milk with Grace. If by careful you mean I avoid cow's milk mostly. However, she has had had almond milk, soy milk, rice milk, coconut milk and hemp milk. She eats goat's milk yogurt or sheep's milk yogurt (for the record, sheep's milk yogurt is The Best Yogurt EVER like Greek Yogurt but yummier) and cow's milk yogurt.

It's been years since she's had cow's milk and I know that if I go a bit without it, when I have it again, I feel sort of bloated and sick. Or at least that's my reasoning.

More faux science from popular media!

BREAKING NEWS SAYS FOOD ON MOST KIDS MENUS IS NOT HEALTHY

The greasy Mac & Cheese Quesadilla kids meal at Friendly's -- with a whopping 2,270 calories -- tops the list of unhealthy, fattening foods parents feed their kids at restaurants, according to an eye-opening survey by thedailybeast.com.

"Children's meals at restaurants are garbage," said Mary Jo Messito, director of the Pediatric Obesity Clinic at Bellevue Hospital.

"Somehow, the restaurant industry has created special meals for children that are trash. And I don't know where that came from."

Yes, it's just baffling why a chain family restaurant would put macaroni & cheese on their children's menu. Most kids I know would definitely prefer a nice piece of grilled fish with steamed veggies on the side.

Sue, lack of pollination is becoming a persistent problem in North America generally, because of the bee collapse.

Interesting. I've seen bees in the garden, but they've been at the flower beds, not the veggies. (My zucchini have nasturtium planted around them and the tomatoes have marigolds as companion plants.) And god knows, something is pollinating the tomatoes, because they are out of control.

I loved rice cereal as a kid. So much that I are baby cereal way past the baby age.

Oh, I was careful with milk, too! Well, not careful so much as I just didn't give any until they were a year old. I never experimented with any of the others.