Early on in knowing Captain Sarcastic, I was aware that animals and small children responded to him–he has this uncanny ability to calm and relax them; they are uncontrollably drawn to him. So it came as no surprise that Sun finds peace in her daddy’s arms. I can rock, sing to, or walk with Sun endlessly. And she’ll even fall asleep. But within 15 minutes, there is a pretty good chance she’ll be up again. After about three rounds of this, I give up and send in CS. He’s the closer. He can get her down in no time every time and she is down for good. Rrrr.

Oh, and the cat? Since the baby was born, Peanut is even more into him than she was before–and that is saying a lot. She still crawls over me to get to CS to give him biscuits. CS summed it up quite succinctly recently: “If she won’t give you biscuits now, you’ll never get ‘em. I mean, you’re doughy and smell like milk.” Indeed.