Today marks week 20 for our little boy Zane, shown here on a Walmart Super Special Early Kids, 3"x5" glossy portrait. Yep, ever since they installed the DIY Sonogram photo booths it has changed the face of early parenting. Drive down, do up a sonogram for a buck fifty and hit the baby department ready to buy the on-sale baby clothes you will need!

Boy, that was a long first 20 weeks. Heck, that was a long 2006 altogether. Someday when we're sipping fresh squeezed lemonade watching the kid crab-walk the lawn; eating earthworms, toppling over onto grass stained knees, while a few feet away a kitten stalks a bug or a puppy tries to figure out its oversized feet, we should discuss the year 2006.

But not right now, not when it's just rounding the corner, walking away. Let's smile and wave, fingers crossed behind our backs...