I try to write about exceptional things that happen in our household, and this week something exceptional did happen. Connor got to meet one of his Dad's best friends, fresh off the plane from Colorado, Larry.
Larry is so full of cartoon character voices and a willingness to play the "Surprise!" game, that Connor loved him instantly. Instantly means of course, after taking about an hour to determine that Larry was not going to wipe his nose, make him eat green beans or feed him to wild monkeys. Once he discovered that Larry liked playing with his toys almost as much as he did... it was on.
It was almost like Connor sensed it. Sensed that Larry was in that vulnerable place where you start thinking about kids of your own. And he went in for the kill.
Connor was nothing but completely charming the entire time. He sat in Larry's lap, he made his special squirrel-face for him, he didn't rub peaches in his hair while he ate and he even lunged out of my arms to get Larry to hold him. His poop didn't smell as bad, he didn't come up to us with a dead moth in his mouth and he listened when I said no.
Our child was so unbelievably cute that Larry's biological clock started ticking, uterus or not. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
2 comments:
LOL ohhh my sounds like something I would have loved to have witnessed. :-) Nice to hear Larry is doing well. I haven't saw him since I flew out to California a few years back. - Amanda
Next time he comes into town, we are going to have to have a "Larry's in town, come over and see him" party!
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