As most of you know, my BFF is my gal pal Deirdre.  I yammer on more about her than Gayle rambles about Oprah.   Last night, I got to hang out with her and her brood in Sacramento.  It just so happens I’m in her neck of the woods for a shoot – and seeing her has been the highlight of the trip.

Since I practically spent all of my 20’s with Deirdre, it’s funny to see her in harried mom/doting wife mode.   Or maybe that’s harried wife/doting mom.  That’s not the Deirdre I know.  The Dre I know was a fitness freak.  She would often lie to me and say we were going on a two-mile “jaunt” which turned out to be a seven-mile death march.  The Dre I know would only go shopping if a gun was held to her head.  The Dre I know never had a maternal instinct in her body.  Now, she’s wiping up spit-up and abruptly placing rambunctious 3 year-olds in timeout.   Now she’s chasing kids around a playground instead of hiking mountains.   I spent a lot of time yesterday with my mouth agape.

Her first kid, Collin, is nothing short of a child prodigy.  He’s articulate, occasionally well mannered and blunt.  He’s three going on thirty.   He’s quite informative actually.   In the span of about four minutes, he gave me his take on his curly hair, his hatred of snap peas and why his dad’s feet are so freakishly large.   “My dad’s feet are bigger than yours – because my dad is 44!”  he said in an oh-so, no-nonsense tone.  The only thing missing was a “DUH!” at the end of the sentence.

I can’t tell if he’s fond of his younger brother.  He seems to be … although he’s constantly trying to eat him.  “I just want to see what he tastes like, Mom.”  Deirdre’s pat response, “Your brother is not a snack, Collin.”

Of course Deirdre and her hubby Kipp are proud parents – constantly showing off pictures and movies and other assorted whatnot of their bambinos.  Dre’s favorite picture is to the left.  Apparently, his brother Declan’s face mesmerized Collin.  He kept contorting it in to some weird shape.  When hard-pressed on WHY he was doing it, Collin replied, “Because now he looks like Nemo!” 

Yes, Collin – he does.  Good point.  You better hope Declan never gets bigger than you.  Payback is gonna be a bitch, kid.