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Okay, now let me apologize in advance for the quality of the photo. It is here mainly for the humor and was perhaps my first (marginally) smart phone selfie, taken about 9 years ago when my granddaughter, Bella, was a toddler. As some of you know, she and her mom lived with us for her first two years, the first because daddy was deployed to Afghanistan for a year, and the second for house-hunting upon his return, so we got to bond with her in a manner most grandparents do not get. Not quite one-year-old here Bella took to climbing up our bedroom quilt on many mornings, to achieve the top of the bed to first visit "Guppa" (who usually slept a little later on weekends), and second to pull the blinds cord to see the dogs running around out back. In this particular scene, she is about to step over my head, and I am desperately hoping that that is a fresh diaper, or at least one that is iron-clad leak-proof.