And when it's all said and done there will be a little piece of immortality with Jackson's good looks and my sense of style, I hope.

I had a chance on Monday to see Taken. (thank Heavens for Netflix.) This was a movie that Nick and I wanted to see in the theater and never got the chance. So, when my sister, Casy, called and invited us over for pizza and movie, I thought “Great, I really want to see this movie.” However, I will need to watch it again, because I had a little bit of a distraction and just kinda saw it, but didn’t really watch it. The distraction I am speaking of is in the picture to the left. This is my beautiful niece Emily! (this picture is me, E and Nicky at a baseball game last weekend).

Emmy is 10 months old today and quite a handful. She is the only daughter of my sister Casy and her husband Hank, and the most beautiful baby in the world if I do say so myself. Now E has an affinity for cell phones (she has already tried to reprogram her mother’s blackberry) and if you leave it lying around she will find it. Her mother warned us when we got there not to leave anything on the floor, on the table…well let’s just say if you like it don’t set it down. Not as soon as I walked through the door I put my purse down and Emmy, knowing that cell phones can be found in purses, started looking for it. She crawled over to the bag, sat down beside it and put her hand inside feeling around. She never took her eyes off the room because, since her parents haven’t provided her with a look out yet, she has to be her own sentry. She never found the cell phone pocket and was soon thwarted in her task. Later on however, Aunt Carly is silly and takes the phone out and leaves it on the end table beside the sofa she is sitting on….JACK POT!!!

Emily is a resourceful little thing and having seen the Blackjack unguarded she makes her move. She crawls over to the table and pulls up on it. Never taking her eyes off Aunt Carly, she inches her little hand closer to the phones location. When I catch her, she jerks her hand back and grins up at me (showing all six of her teeth) as if to say “I no did it!” This is a fun little game we are playing until the movie gets too interesting for me to pay close attention to my sweet niece. As soon as my attention is turned back to the movie, her chubby little hand starts toward the device again this time…SUCCESS!!! She plops down on the floor and proceeds to try and text her friend Asher (the keys are locked so until she becomes a code cracker the phone bill is safe…at least for the next month or so). Finding that he is not answering her she decides to try a new technique… she licks it.

So, guys and dolls, this is why the only thing I know about Taken is that Liam Neeson beats up A LOT of people in really cool ways to save his daughter from slave traders. Now I know why people have kids…they are so much more interesting.