March 19, 2013

• What Are We, Rookies?

  “Honey, I don’t think it’s supposed to look like that.”
  “Well, can you just . . . hold him . . . no, like, his head.  There.”
  “Oops.  Sorry.”
  “Uh, okay, I guess I can . . . fix the other . . .”
  “Maybe you should do it with him sitting up instead of lying down.”
  “Maybe you should try it for ten seconds and then tell me how I should do it.”
  “Here, I’ve got him now.”
  “Honey, he’s crying.  I don’t think you should hold his neck like that.”
  “Well, he keeps moving!”
  “Um . . . maybe Isaac can entertain him enough to keep him still.”
  “Aaaaaaaaaamos!  Amos, look over here!  NO!  I mean, over here!”
  “Okay, Isaac, you clap while I hold his ear.”
  “Can you bend him down a lit– . . . never mind.”
  “OH, NO, Amos, DON’T . . . okay, no, go ahead.  It’s okay.”
  “Maybe we should finish it up when he falls asleep.”
  “There’s just that ONE little lock I think I can get . . . if he would . . . well, that’s not . . . awful.”
  “Mom, it really doesn’t look so good.”

  

  “You should see how yours looked the first time I cut it.  You should be grateful for non-digital cameras.”
  “That’s okay.  We’ll just tell people Theo did it.”

  

  “No one would believe him if he denied it.”

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