Fun In The Water

Due to The Kid's hectic social schedule, he's attended several pool parties. He was a little unsure exactly how to handle these water based social events, so he checked with Monkey and T-Bear to see what swimming was like. While normally going to a bear and monkey for advice on pretty much any subject is a brilliant idea, asking them about swimming in a pool may be one of the few instances where they don't offer brilliant advice. Monkey tried to convince the kid to avoid all swimming, as swimming invariably led to encounters with crocodiles, and in Monkey's experience crocodiles where not the best swim buddies in the world. T-Bear on the other hand assured him swimming was great, although he had to make sure he scooped out all the salmon he could find. The Kid was not so excited about swimming with either salmon or crocodiles, so he was a little worried when he went to Z's birthday pool party.

The Kid anxiously looking for crocodiles to avoid or salmon to scoop.

After a few tentative trips into the pool that involved no crocodiles or salmon, The Kid decided maybe pools weren't the scary experience he had been led to expect. Z also assured him, in her vast pool experience, salmon and crocodiles were very rare.

With this encouragement The Kid was much more excited about the pool at baby D's little get together. Not only did the kid dip his feet in the water, he got his face wet and did some fast fast motorboating and a little practice waterskiing.

The Kid showing his skills as a fast fast motorboat.

Unfortunately there was no photographic evidence of The Kid's water skiing skills. However, The Kid is pretty sure it looked a lot like this:

The Kid is all about the intensity just like the Zooker.

Whether or not The Kid's skiing is that intense, he is now a much bigger fan of pools, and a little more unsure whether T-Bear and Monkey are as knowledgeable as they claim.

More Parenting Oddities

T-Bear and Monkey are not really sure what to make of this. Either it's some sort of new age baby restraint device, or Dork Boy is growing clones of The Kid in the garden. Currently, T-Bear and Monkey are keeping a close eye on the garden.

The Kid either restrained from rolling all about the room, or hanging out with The Kid Clone 1 and The Kid Clone 2.

Gameday Comes!!!

The Kid is ready for the beginning of college football gamedays. He's not all that sure he understands the intricacies of college football, but he's pretty sure it involves lots of excitement. At least, there was lots of excitement when he was in utero. Based on the in utero experience, game day involves some yelling of "Gameday!!!", then Dork Boy gets grumpy and becomes convinced the dawgs will lose, but The Wife trys to reassures him everything will be fine because it's only the first quarter. However, Dork Boy tends to not believe this at all because he invariably stomps off and disappears for a while. Then he comes back, cheers, decides the dawgs don't suck and begins to contemplate naming children after Knowshon and Rennie Curran. This continues for a while, then The Wife generally says "See I told you they'd be fine". Then there is a brief break. After which, the wife begins to jump around a lot saying things like, "What the hell was that!!!", "F#$*&ng Weiss!!", "Genius My Ass!!!". Then Dork Boy tries to assure The Wife it's not that bad. The Wife generally seems to scoff at this, and to be honest Dork Boy doesn't sound like he believes it all that much. Based on the fairly continual yelling, The Kid's pretty sure it was that bad. Although The Kid did enjoy the jumping, so from his perspective it wasn't that bad.

Charlie better get his genius act on or The Kid's first words maybe "Weiss is a f@#$%!g idiot!!!"

The Kid did make the last gameday of last season. Although, it was a bit different than he imaged. There was very little jumping, but that may have been due to his arrival which apparently made jumping fairly uncomfortable for the wife. There was lots of yelling "f%k*" and "s#$t" which normally are a big part of gamedays, however there was very little mention of Weiss. Also the game was a bit strange since it seemed to involve very large men in black chasing somebody called Colt Brennan. The Kid is pretty sure he never wants to be the Colt Brennan.

Colt Brennan is not sure he wants to ever be the Colt Brennan again.

To help be more prepared for gamedays this season, The Kid consulted with T-Bear on the needed skills, and he's pretty sure he can handle the basics of college football watching.

First he has his gameday outfit complete with lucky hat.

He has mastered the details of sitting on the couch and operating the remote control.

And he learned to operate the beer bottle.

The Kid Does Some Construction

The Wife has been on a bit of crusade to rid the house of her nemesis the toilet. Nobody is quite sure exactly what the root of the hatred is, but it is a deep and abiding hatred. And it finally reached it's peak; The Wife declared the toilet had to go. This is when the Kid stepped in. Based on T-Bear and Monkey's report on Dork Boy's attempts to hang blinds, The Kid decided maybe it was better if Dork Boy wasn't really involved in the installing the toilet.

So The Kid jumped in his command center and got his all girl construction crew on the job.

The Kid supervises the initial installation of the toilet.

While his crew did an excellent job of doing the heavy lifting and getting the toilet installed, The Kid had to do the small details of getting the toilet just right.

The Kid gets in position to make some detailed adjustments.

While many had hoped the removal of the toilet would all The Wife to settle into a life free of hatred for house hold items, it appears that is not to be the case. The Wife has now turned her ire on the windows that have dared to allow a draft. The Kid is currently reviewing the finer points of window installation.