Best wishes for a smashing first birthday to my wee nephew, Where's Teddy?! I've yet to have a substantive conversation with Where's Teddy?, yet to suss out his thoughts and opinions on the world around him, and I largely attribute this to his youth; he's spent—to editorialize, misspent—the last year living quite high on the hog, lollygagging about without a care in the world aside from the occasional bother of teething. Where's Teddy? is a perpetual motion machine, a relentless crawler and shuffler; I pity those tasked with keeping him out of mischief once he learns how to walk. Happy birthday, Teddy!
(Remember, Teddy, Uncle Mike is your favorite.)
The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Dan Potthast, "Where's Teddy?" from Eyeballs (T.L.A.M.)
Commentary: I also considered the R.C.Y. song "Teddy's First Night in the Drunk Tank," but decided to go with the song that gave my nephew his Secret Base codename.
"You should be by your friends."
4 comments:
Uncle Mike has to be his favorite, because the rest are Ohioans, and no one likes Ohioans.
{a} The lad is being raised an an Ohioan; so, he'll be brainwashed into thinking there's nothing inherently wrong with Ohio nor with Ohioans.
{b} My brother-in-law, Brother-in-L.A.W. is also Teddy's uncle (though, yes, at the moment B-i-L's mostly busy being Natalie's dad) and also not from Ohio.
{c} I do have the unfair advantage of being me; so, yes, it's not like there's any real competition.
{d} I say to both Teddy and Natalie, every time I see either of them, "Uncle Mike is your favorite." We'll see if it works.
Aww! What a great photo! He's adorable.
He's mastering the water at an early age. Good. That's how it should be.
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