Dear E.,

This is the prophecy of your ole dad based on the fact that you just read The Hobbit, and you are not quite seven years old. So J.R.R. Tolkien being a guy thing my prophecy is the following:

You will get along great with boys and will be the envy of other girls, but you will be frustrated that all these boys are your best friends and not looking at you as a love interest. You will be the female Cyrano.

All these boys will be super cute but super dumb. There will be one boy who will see you for who you are and appreciate you but he will be strange and geeky and you will not really see him.

That is my prophecy and 10 years, 15 years from now, I will show you this and say, "See!."

NFL Picks from a 5-year-old

It started at the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. The Patriots were the huge favorites, sporting a 17-0 record and vying to be only the second NFL team in history to finish the season undefeated. On top of which, the Patriots had beaten the Giants a few weeks ago.

Of course, my daughter, Little E., didn't know any of this. She was 3 at the time.

I asked, "Who do you like?"

"The Giants," she said. "Because my favorite color is blue."

The Giants, as everyone knows, pulled off the huge upset.

Since then, Little E. has been right about 90% of the time. Only recently, have I started to ask her which teams she likes and I can't only remember once, maybe twice, she has been wrong.

Here are some of her recent correct picks:

Alabama over Florida. (college football).

Just this past weekend, in the NFL wildcard play-offs:

NY Jets over the Cinncinati Bengals. (she didn't know where Cincinnati was.)

Baltimore Ravens over Patriots (she didn't know what a Patriot was.).

Arizona over Green Bay.

Based on her logic, Arizona Cardinals because she didn't know where Green Bay is or what a Packer was?

I have to start thinking like a 5-year-old, and I'm definitely having her fill out a March Madness bracket this year.