The mom blogs are furiously linking to two topics this morning. One is this viral video of twin boys talking to each other. Well, there aren't really talking. They are cracking themselves up by mimicking their parents and each other. As a parent of kid with language delays, I find this video fascinating. It shows a basic pre-language stage of joint attention and mimicry. In order to talk, we have to have the ability to copy and the interest in caring what others think. 

The other topic du jour is about a report by the FDA that food coloring may cause behavior problems. Parents have long suspected that Fruit Loops and Kool Aid made their kids crazy. Now the FDA may start paying attention. They are setting up a panel to investigate. "Artificial dyes were developed — just as aspirin was — from coal tar, but are now made from petroleum products." Ack! 

Steve has to stop taking the kids to 7/11 to get those Slurpies.