The Kid Grows Some More

The Kid continues to grow. He is now up to almost 9lbs. 14oz. He continues to be a bit long and lean, but other than that he seems to be doing well. As part of his growing process, he has begun to try and master the tricky skills of smiling and thumb sucking. In addition, T-Bear has begun to try and teach him some more useful skills that are involved in the process of catching fish.

The Kid staring down his training partners Wally and Olly

T-Bear has been training The Kid against Olly the Octopus and Wally The Whale. The Kid has been wrestling with Wally.

Here The Kid can be seen after taking down Wally.

Due to Olly's arm advantage, T-Bear has The Kid working on his kung fu skills.

Here The Kid can be seen trying some sort of punch grab sort of maneuver.

There have been some who are not sure how wrestling and kung fu will actually help The Kid learn to fish, but T-Bear assures us that these are very key skills in getting salmon out of the river in Alaska. It should be noted there appears to be no record of T-Bear actually being in Alaska or really any river. Luckily, regardless of his eventual fishing skills, the kid will have some very impressive smiling skills to fall back on.

The Kid showing off the results of his hours of smile practice.