and that's not even counting my squadron of toddlers.

BTW, what it the venereal term for toddlers in a group? of is such a term waiting to be invented? Perhaps "a squaldron of toddlers"?

(running off to check An Exaltation of Larks; will edit this to note anything found there.) EDIT: nothing found there; the closest was "a caper of kids". We have perhaps a tabula rasa, but certainly a open season for our creativity.