Lucas News: Lucas is now walking with the help of mom and dad holding his hands for support (not holding him up). Craziness! It should be only a matter of months before he is competing in the Boston Marathon. Also, he upgraded his diet to the inclusion of very small bits of chicken this last week. This is how he convinced his mother that he could have chicken:
Lucas: "Mom, I would like to be just like Dad when I grow up!"
Rheagan: "Hmm, are sure about that? He is a little thick between the ears sometimes."
Lucas: "Well, maybe not ‘just’ like Dad. But I would like to have the same job that he has"
Rheagan: "You mean that you would like to be a Shenanigan when you grow up?"
Lucas: "No, not that!"
Rheagan: "You want to be a Cod Fish?"
Lucas: "No, not that job either....the other one"
Rheagan: "Oh, you mean that you want to be in the Air Force?"
Lucas: "Well that would ok....maybe. But that’s not what I mean either. I’m talking about his other job...the secret one!"
Rheagan: "Hmm...so you want to be the Dread Pirate Roberts?"
Lucas: "That’s right! That’s the best job ever. Daddy is so cool. He has the mask and the cape and the saber and the sail ship and he is even immune to arsenic...."
Lucas: "Mom, Ill never become the Dread Pirate Roberts if I don’t start building up my immunity to arsenic. Can I have some arsenic?"
Rheagan: "You must be kidding!?!"
Lucas: "Mom, this is serious. I need to be Dread Pirate Roberts!"
Rheagan: "It’s out of the question"
Lucas: "But Mom...!"
Rheagan: "Ill tell you what. You can have some of this chicken. That sounds good doesn’t it?"
Lucas: "hmm....ok" ....and quietly to himself: *snicker, snicker, snicker*
The little man plays his parents like a fiddle on a sunny Sunday afternoon. :)
Whoa. Not so fast Luke. Remember you have to crawl first. Standing up on your wooble legs can put too much weight on them while they are still quite plastic, and this can give you genu valgus (bow legs, Pardner). Just like chicken before sashimi: crawl before walk.
Posted by: dad at October 5, 2004 04:30 AMLook, L.G., if you are ever to grow up to be a proper geek, you must learn to properly paraphrase the great works.
Iocaine powder, foo'!
As for your grampa's sashimi comment: first chicken, then go for tuna, salmon, and eel. Stay away from the fish roe, that stuff's naaasty.
Posted by: Amit at October 5, 2004 05:59 AMHe's walking???? He's walking!!! Oh my gosh, this is killing me not to be there.
Posted by: grandma at October 9, 2004 02:21 AM