Baking chocolate is, in fact, edible. You only need to cover it sufficiently with cream cheese frosting.
You know, when you're in a pinch.
E and K have made a non-verbal pact (one of them is four months old - it would have to be non-verbal, right?): they may leave Mommy unattended for no more than 15 minutes during daylight hours; they are worried that Mommy might get lonely. Or run away. (And nobody told me this - I had to figure it out myself.)