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not an infant, not yet a toddler

6/23/2005

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Not that I ever turn on the television when Gus is in the room, but if I did, there's a very good chance that tonight, while Larry was at band practice, and Gus was lingering over his last bottle of the night, I would have stumbled upon the second half of a highly underrated film called Crossroads. In case you've forgotten, Crossroads stars none other than Britney Spears. And I must tell you, Gus was absolutely smitten with her. What I mean is, he WOULD have been smitten, had we not been so engaged in that highly educational dinosaur science math vocabulary thing that we were doing. Now, to Gus's credit--Crossroads does not feature Britney the Uber-Skank. Heavens, no! This is Britney in her sweet pre-Federline prime. Back when her feet were reasonably free of filth, and she was ... Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman.

So Gus is watching this total piece of garbage (REFUSING to let me change the channel!), and after Britney discovers that the handsome but mysterious love interest did not actually "kill a gah," but, rather, got sideways with the law in what was (you'll never guess!) a HUGE misunderstanding, she reads him her "not a girl, not yet a woman" poem from her journal on the beach, three days later he turns it into a song, she sings, he plays, and ta-dah, they kiss on a white piano bench.

At this point, it's somewhere around 9:00, and I'm thinking Gus is sound asleep, because he hasn't moved a muscle in MINUTES.

But no.

The boy. Was. Riveted.

So moved was he by this cinematic moment, his tiny jaw had gone completely slack. I lifted him out of his chair. "Time for bed, little man." I told him. "Sweet dreams."

And never has he gone so willingly to his crib.

Sweet dreams, indeed.

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