The Twinkies

J, don’t stick your finger up Mama’s nose.

Stranger sees shiner.
Please do not call the police:
Babe thinks he can fly.

from Haiku Mama

Stacey at Learning Along has a thoughtful post on protecting children’s innocence. How do you protecct your children from the world, knowing that sooner or later they will have to live in it and, hopefully, change it?

Cass at Many a Mile to Go poetically writes about night time nursing. This post is beautiful. Just beautiful.

Eva has a great post on the pros and cons of being a twin.

Looky Daddy has a new contest - how good are you at rewriting lyrics to silly, child centric themes?.

And, of course, add your favorites to the comments. You know, your favorite post CAN be your own…don’t be modest.

It is possible to have post partum mania? I ask not as someone who has cooked dinners all week, using recipies like “Mango Chicken Salad with Orange Vinagrette” or “Pasta with Duck Ragu”, nor as someone who made a pie that, start to finish, took over 8 hours, nor as someone who is adding a slate walkway to the garden, all with 9 month old twins. No, I those things aren’t enough to make me worry. But when I make white chocolate chip macademia nut cranberry cookies because I am bored, after reading an entire book, on a wet afternoon in which the babies declined to nap, well, I start to wonder.

Plus, who has the ingredients for white chocolate chip macademia nut cranberry cookies JUST LYING AROUND. Someone get me help.

PokerPeaker writes: How about a blog entry on how your twins interact with each other at their age now. Do they play together? Do they know each other? Are they anxious when they are apart?

As a picture is worth 1,000 sleep-deprived incoherent words, I offer this to answer you: