Kidstuff: 2 month old magician (Life's little lessons #5312)

One of the foundations of magic is the graceful art of distraction. If you can get the audience looking at your right hand, your left hand is free to put a rabbit in your hat or load some cards. My 2 month old daughter has demonstrated this ability.

I was halfway into a diaper change, had the old one off and was wrapping it up, and not awake enough to have unfolded the new clean dry one. I looked at her face, our eyes met, (as a parent, baby eyes are extremely engaging, especially once you can tell there is a mind behind them, and that they see *you* not just shapes and light) and then the sweetest baby girl in the world smiled at me, then topped it off with the coup-de-grace of a delightfully vocalized "goo". I melted completely -- if she had asked "daddy buy me a Ferrari", the house would have been double mortgaged in an instant.

Moment over, back to the task at hand...hey, wait a minute...the changing table is wet...how did that happen...oh!

Some weeks ago, I had the audacity to laugh at my wife who, in a very practiced fashion, and almost a single movement, pulled the old diaper out and put the new diaper under. A lesson, that by the second child, you'd think I'd know...

rootie