'Inner Peace'

Toddlers are all about phases. Harry has recently entered the highly-unpredictable, I'm-going-to-go-loco-if-my-banana-breaks-in-two-during-breakfast stage. It's delightful. Really. Bias aside, he's the best kid: always smiling and enthusiastic. But boy, these emotional jags...I think it's a cross between his Italian blood and the drama of toddlerdom. One minute we are happy happy happy. The next we are howling for five straight minutes because the baby is perched on mom's lap.

So, how ironic that last night Harry was sitting on the sofa, softly chanting words he had recently heard spoken in the animated movie Kung Fu Panda: "Inner peace....Inner peace."

Yes, Harry. Mommy could use some too.

*Need a pick-me-up? Go to the Itunes store and download Jack Black's version of "Kung Fu Fighting."