Let's Hope The Manny Has Quick Reflexes

There's been lots of celebrity bay news in the headlines for what seems like an eternity.  First, we had to endure Tom Cruise going on incessantly about how he bought an ultrasound machine so Kate and he could see the baby before it was even born.  Then we all waited for official word from north Africa that Angelina Jolie had given birth to Brad Pitt's baby.  Even though baby Shiloh is a few weeks old now, she's the talk of Hollywood.  While we followed these two celebrity births, Britney Spears was still making headlines with her nine month old baby, Sean. Unfortunately the headlines for baby Sean weren't as joyous.  First of all, we shook our heads in disbelief when we saw pictures of Britney driving with the baby in her lap.  Second, we gasped for air when we heard that some dropped baby Sean as they were putting him in his high chair.  Talk on the street was that it was the nanny that dropped the baby but I wouldn't put it past either one of the kid's parents.  Even though baby Sean has been competing with Shiloh and Suri for air time the past few weeks, he's still in the news.  Now we find out that baby Sean has a new nanny - a guy.  But not just any guy.  His name is Perry Taylor, and he attended the Naval academy, and served on the USS Iwo Jima. They're calling him a "manny".   Actually he's more of a body guard for Britney and baby Sean, but like the paparazzi, I like calling him a manny instead of a bodyguard. 

I can't think of a better job for this guy.  Poor baby Sean needs all the protection he can get. And being involved in the VFW, I think it's cool that Britney hired a veteran to help with her baby.  I'll give her props for that.   I hope the new manny is as quick on his feet as her previous one.  The picture above was taken a few weeks ago when there was yet another infant-vs-gravity mishap.  We're told Britney was holding a drink in her right hand and Sean in her left as she maneuvered through a crowd of onlookers. Britney moves through the crowd and then she suddenly trips, the baby's head goes backward and his hat flies off his head. Britney regained her balance and the baby seemed ok. And she didn't spill a drop of her drink, either.

Quite frankly, all of the chatter about Spears' seemingly insufficient parenting skills has been blown out of proportion.  We can't base that on an isolated incident in which it looked like she apparently asked her son to drive a getaway car and an equally isolated incident in which the baby was the victim of a tragic high-chair malfunction.