He does have that Derek-like mystique. He's no McDreamy but could be.

First (from your last), I agree totally about the kids. Every now and then when she first came home with the third child, there were occasional scenes with Alex playing with the younger ones. Once in a blue moon, there's a play date between Sofia and Zola but not often. In a normal world (e.g., not Gray-Sloan), …

Isn't Tawney supposed to have grown up in foster homes? Her neediness is as strong as Ted Jr's but less overt in her affect. Love it… McKinnon is a genius.

Tawney begs Ted Jr to keep her pregnancy secret until she could get a bit further along. Anybody could see that Ted Jr would do all he could to spoil the relationship at its most vulnerable when he announced it to distract her from Daniel in the kitchen. Crawford does dysfunctional paranoiac very well.