In which a toddler is totally cute.

My co-worker, Bucket [he hasn’t updated his site since the last presidency, so don’t bother clicking on the link], had his wife and youngest kid here in the office this morning. I adore Bucket’s wife, MrsS. She’s superior in far too many ways to list. (I forgot to order freakin’ Girl Scout Cookies from her daughters, though. I wonder if it’s too late.)

Anyway. Chance, their youngest? Is so adorable. Tow-headed and shy, but not too shy. He had a little toy train with him. He wouldn’t high-five me, but I got several very cute flirty grins and giggles. When his dad put him down he ran the eighteen inches to his momma’s legs and grabbed on. Then his dad picked up his big foot and tapped Chance’s little diapered butt with it, and the kid immediately dissolved into giggles.

“Hey! You kick him in the ass and he giggles! That’s hot!” I exclaimed.

MrsS took one look at me and practically collapsed into giggles herself. “‘Kick him in the ass and he giggles!'” she repeated. “‘That’s hot!'” she finished, and giggled even harder. It was adorable – cutest thing I’d seen this side of Cute Overload in months. (Then later she called me “a skinny thing,” which of course endeared her to me for-fucking-ever.)

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In other, totally unrelated news, here’s my updated Movies-I-Wanna-See (And-Ideally-In-An-Actual-Theatre) list:

• Nanny McPhee [imdb] [site]
• Roving Mars [imdb] [site]
• Brokeback Mountain [imdb] [site]

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In other other news, on Tuesday PenLohP dropped off this device she’d bought her daughter for Xmas. It won’t work. Since then, half the engineers in the department have played with it and none of us can make it work. This makes me suspect the damned thing is just plain broken, which is bad news because it ain’t returnable. *sigh*