The telltale scent of donut-breath....

My niece used to smell people's mouths to see if they had been eating cookies. I used to think she was the only one to go to this length of forensic inquiry...

I sneak food. The boys, collectively, are allergic to dairy, soy, gluten and corn. So nothing I like to eat can be consumed around them. I naively thought I could slip that kind of contraband on the sly, and I almost managed...

Tonight, just as I had slipped the last bit of cidar donut into my mouth, sitting on the floor next to Ian, he picked up a whiff of evidence, and literally followed his nose:

"Daddy, what was that good smell? ...It's coming from your mouth."

(September 29, 2009)