Check out this cute video from my friend John Cave Osborne. He made it a week or two ago to chronicle an evening he spent solo parenting his toddler TRIPLETS while his wife had a much-needed “I need to get out of this house and away from three babies before I stick my head in the oven” night out.

The video is very funny (and he’s an awesome, attached, hands-on, sweet, wonderful father), but perhaps the best part of the story is that after John uploaded it to his You Tube channel, Ashton Kutcher somehow found it – John still has no idea how – and posted it to his own @aplusk Twitter feed (read: several million followers), after which Alyssa Milano picked it up and tweeted it.

So today the video is going viral online, including here at my blog, where I hope you will find it as entertaining as Ashton and Alyssa did.

I have no idea who My mother sent me this link, but it’s 2 year old C, elfed! You may find it as entertaining as I did…or maybe not, since you aren’t her mama

C and NC turned two a few months ago, so this Christmas is a complete revelation to them. Actually, they didn’t really notice Christmas last year. But this time? They are DIGGING Christmas. Each time a new decoration comes out, they are so excited that I fear their little noggins might explode from the sheer joy of it all.

Here they are a day or two ago, checking out a Santa snow globe for the first time. I have been collecting Christmas snow globes for years, and all of the kids love them, but for toddlers, a musical snow globe is as much fun as DisneyWorld… (forgive the lighting in the video, I shot it on my BlackBerry, which isn’t exactly the highest quality camera)

WARNING: This video gets a little icky in parts. Not for the weak of stomach, probably.

I love this home movie made by some kids in Cape Cod in 1978. I recognize the King Kong toy they used to play the part of… King King. My little brother Robert had the same remote control dinosaur toy.

Okay, so this video clearly proves two things about C, who turned two years old this week:

Thing #1 – She is unlikely to ever win American Idol, or land a starring role in a Broadway musical.

Thing #2 – She’s a TOTAL GENIUS!

Jon has been organizing all of the videos we have taken in the past two years, and so I am finding some really amusing ones I’d forgotten we had. Below is a series of short videos that E and his cousin M wanted me to take of them playing with their little sisters, C and NC. The boys put them in the crib that was at that time set up in our front hall (long story). The boys were pretending that the girls, who I think were about 10 months old here (Was that really only one year ago? Wow!), were “wild babies” they had captured and were now keeping in a “baby zoo.” As you can see if you watch the clips, the wild babies thoroughly enjoyed their time in captivity.