Adler Speaks...

Remember the Warner Bros cartoons with Michigan J. Frog?

For those of you not familiar, basically in each cartoon someone finds this frog that can sing and dance.  The catch is that every time they try to show this singing/dancing frog to anyone else, the frog just sits there making everyone look stupid.

Sometimes I feel like that chump when it comes to Adler (who is almost 2).  He's a smart boy who chooses when he decides to talk.  I assure you, the kid knows how...he only does it when it's convenient.

There are times when he says things that surprises me:

But before I can confront him on it, he just smiles and calmly walks away

I'm not the only one he's done this to either.  My mom recently had an encounter such as this with Adler:

After several months of this, I finally decided to ask Adler to come clean with this little ruse of his.  This is how it went down:

So there you have it.  Looks like it may be a little while longer before Adler starts having conversations with most people, but at least it's good to know there's nothing wrong with him...maybe?

As always, I close with a couple of internet pics to keep you going:

Don't get me wrong, I am living the dream as a director of an implementation team, but there are days when I miss working in the service industry.
-Cheers!

Messin' with M

For those of you who have been here recently, you may remember M taking a vacation with some friends.  For those of you who don't know the full story, here it is (in bullet form):

• I took almost two weeks off of work so M could go up north to a friend's cabin
• With M gone on her vacation, my vacation consisted of watching the kids
• Since I was home alone with the kids, I never got to sleep in (one of my favorite hobbies these days)
• M returned with three days left before I had to return to work and promised me that the last three days were mine to spend how I wanted

Yeah, but then this happened:

Sorry, but anything before 8am is not considered sleeping in (according to most people)

Oh, I'm sorry...8:30am is NOT really sleeping in either.

Lousy farmers and their stupid daylight!  For the record, this does not count as sleeping in.

Needless to say, I didn't really get a chance to sleep in the entire time I was off of work.  I had to get revenge!

So I did what any good husband would do - I played it right back:

After starting small, I decided to play it up a bit...if M's brain starts thinking, she'll never get back to sleep. 

Then, just to push it a little further, I added a little worry to the confusion:

I originally wasn't going to add this next one because it was almost too over the top, but then I did anyway:

And of course, for the big finish, I pulled in the kids for a crazy-funtime FLASHMOB!

So there you have it - the final days of my most recent time off of work and some sweet, sweet vengeance on the beloved who made it all happen.

Thanks Baby!

Before we go, as always, I'd like to share some pictures I've discovered while perusing the internet lately.

First one is how M felt after the flashmob:

The second is for Greg/Sarah and Regular Cinderella who both just recently had themselves some babies:

Congrats on not having a velociraptor!

And of course, for the rest of you:

Words to live by...

I guess...

-Cheers!