Because I am reading "An Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal for the BHEA Book Club, I've been bitten by the "thinking in lists" bug. 

1.  What is it about the little crack between the head of the bed and the mattress that just invites pacifiers to hurl themselves over the edge, like lemmings leaping to their death?

I've watched my baby staring helplessly down the abyss, sadly wondering this to himself.  Following his fixed gaze the other day, I dug 3 long-lost pacifiers from their recently-formed nests among the dust bunnies. 

2.   Why does Gerber opt to add food coloring (albeit natural, supposedly from carrots) to their infant snacks?  I mean, what does an infant care what color his banana flavored finger foods are?  Plus, I'm fairly certain this is the same substance the cave man used to paint the messages on various cavern walls that we can still see today, some thousands of years later.  Not even my cherished Tide Stick can do the trick on this marvel of slobbery permanence.

3.  Why is it that I can hardly beat OS (age 10) and MS (age 7) off Baby (age <8 months) with sticks when I want to nurse him and need his full concentration, but they run like rabbits when I need them to watch him so I can "powder my nose"?

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