I was driving the kids to school this morning, and Billy Joel's "Innocent Man" spun up on the iPod rotation. And just before the part came up where he hollers out "I AAAAAAAAM an innocent MAAAAAN" I said, "Ok guys! I'm gonna go for it!" and then about 3/4 of a second into "AAAAAAM", my throat choked off and I collapsed into a coughing fit. Doggone morning cactus throat. Boy did they think THAT was hilarious. Dad's a hack! About a minute later when that part came around again, Giselle called dibs on it. And got BUSTED! She choked all over it too. HAHAH! She's all, "Oh my gosh, that's harder than I thought it would be! ...When I was imagining it in my head, it was SO much easier..."
And there's Harrison laughing because his Dad and sister are fools. He likes to play like he's the cautious one you see--all smiling big as he walked to the door of the school. But he's also the one who intentionally made the goofy face in his 42 dollars worth of school pictures that I just saw yesterday. I might be a little bent because of that, if it weren't for the fact that they take two sets of pictures over the school year these days. Fall and Spring. Two different companies come in to do it. What a nice little racket. Like your average set of parents is going to get that second set of pictures in April and be like "meh" send 'em back. I'm even having trouble deciding to send back the goofball shots of my son. It's just pigment on paper I try to tell myself, but I anthropomorphize everything, so it's tough. He's very pleased with them though. So maybe I'll just let him wallpaper his side of the room with them.
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