Did we skip ahead an hour last night?
We've has something miraculous happen in our house here during the last few days. Our 4-month-old, if given a bottle after 10 p.m., will sleep until close to 6 a.m.! That counts as through the night, of course, and it has really thrown off the internal clocks of my wife and me. We aren't sure what to do without getting up at 1 a.m. My body knows, though. We both slept through the alarm this morning. It's now shortly before 5 a.m. and I'm off schedule.

So, buckle up and here ... we ... go:

She grew up right before our eyes (sniff, sniff)
There is much to the tale of Darva Conger, the multimillionaire bride wannabe who has turned from a shy, retiring nurse who wanted to fade back into obscurity after the on-air wedding debacle into a camera-hungry glamour girl ready to pose nude in Playboy. If you believe The New York Post, anyway.

She reportedly will receive a "six-figure" sum for the pictorial, set to run sometime in the fall, according to the Post report. The modeling job has long been rumored -- she has been photographed at several Playboy mansion parties, including with Hugh Hefner himself -- but it certainly shows the allure of money, fame and TV cameras.

The innocent, soft-spoken Dana appeared sincere as all get-out on the morning news/talk shows in the days after she returned from her non-honeymoon after marrying a man she'd never met live on national TV's "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?"

She insisted that she didn't want the attention, that she wanted her normal, quiet life back and had made a serious error in judgment. Then, a week or two later, there she was, all glammed up at the Oscars, doing interviews with "Entertainment Tonight" and fielding the offers. Do we have a new Great American Tale here?

Oh, yeah, him
Not that Rick Rockwell, the hidden multimillionaire who secretly selected his bride, didn't come out of the Nielsen wedding with bumps and bruises of his own. He's since taken his comedy act on the road and passes along sound bites on request.

Read what the man who never saw his bride naked says about Conger posing nude for the world to see ...

Where I stand on chocolate
Our daughter, who turns 3 in mid-May, will eat chocolate if it's given to her, but she never asks for it. In fact, I don't know if sugar attracts kids that young, but it certainly seems to have no hold on her. Is she too young to screamingly demand chocolate or some other candy?

I, on the other hand, can't get enough of the stuff. My appreciation of the goodness found in chocolate is already legendary around my house, and is balanced by my wife's desire to eat moderate and healthy foods. So, when the Easter candy was packed up after a morning of munching, I was pretty well surprised when my wife asked me to hide the chocolate because she was dipping in too often for her tastes.

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