It's Important to Specialize

Like all parents we spend idle time (or what passes for idle time in an infant's household) wondering what Fiona's going to be like when she grows up. And, of course, we also want to know what she's going to do for a living.

When she first started grabbing at things, we tried to think of jobs for a grabber--and toll collecting came to mind.

Soon Fiona added a new skill, as she learned to tear paper like a champ. Obviously this baby was born to be a ticket taker--maybe even an usher.

But after watching her last night, our friend John-Andrew came up with the best job yet. Fiona can scoot along the ground at high speeds while barely lifting even her shoulders off the floor. And from all the grabbing she's been doing at Daddy' s lower lip lately it's clear she has an interest in the mouth.

So we've figured it out. Fiona is going to work for Army Special Forces as a dentist. And in 30 years when a member of Delta Force in Basra needs a root canal done, you can count on Fiona to sneak beneath hostile barbed wire ready to perform emergency D.D.S. work.