The Ladies' Man
We took David out for Chinese for the first time, and he loved it. Not the food, so much, but the lights and decorations, the music and waitresses! He bopped his head in time to the Chinese techno pop and let the waitress, who was so taken with him I thought she might pull up a chair and spend the whole meal at the table, feed him ice cream. It strikes me that in most groups, if everyone notices somebody else and ignores you, you get a little piqued, but if they are ignoring you to pay attention to your child, you're perfectly content to be invisible, wouldn't draw focus if you could, and somehow feel more puffed up than if you'd just won an Oscar.

David's first fortune cookie: Your ability to be silly will serve you well.

Indeed.