Toddlers love to explore, discover and totally change your house and your life. They like to change your hairdo by pulling it. They like being devious while smiling and having fun. They run run run until they just stop and hit the bed.

Then they love to speak their own language, a language that no one understands fully. They want to speak desperately, but, no one call fully understand. Once he gets the English language, we will hear a lot we may not want to understand.

Enjoy him now, so I hear!!!

After 22 years of military service, I retired. I am still very young - not exactly of retirement age. But I retired when my focus changed to my new family and especially my little boy, Lucas. There are always mixed feelings when one chapter of life ends and the other starts. Those feelings are real and are with me. However, I can't imagine being deployed away from my little one and my opportunity to continue to grow my family. This is so very special. More than any job, even the military. This choice was simple - do I want to be away or with him and my current life? I love my current life as mom much, much more than the military. That was my huge distraction and forced me to change my life, ending my military career. A great and wonderful distraction. I am so grateful for him and for my new life!

How I love the central vac! It's quiet, it's light, and it's easy to use. For all those qualities, Lucas, now 23 mos, loves it too! He loves to unplug the vac from the wall and then plug it in. Unplug, plug, unplug, plug... OK, might as well do something else!!! There's no childproofing the central vac. The only option is to use it while he naps. But another thing about the central vac... He enjoys vacuuming! Yes, he likes to vacuum. He pulled it away from me and didn't want my help either. The only alternative - the power of distraction!