Gonna Have to Curb Their Calvin & Hobbes Reading

On the airplane

“Why does Keshi get two armrests and I only get one? No fair!”

“You’re going to have to share the one in between you two, okay?”

a few minutes later 

“1, 2, 3, 4. Switch! 1, 2, 3, 4. Switch! 1, 2, 3, 4. Switch!”

“Uh, what are you two doing?” They continue to count and move their arms on and off the armrest between them.

“We’re sharing the armrest. Like you said.”

 

After I hurt my back

“I feel a hundred years old.”

“You mean you feel like you’ve lived a long life and beat the odds and feel incredibly lucky?”

“…”

 

Nativity play

They do not get their oddness from me. It’s all their father. Who dressed up as the Baby Jesus in our family Nativity play. The baby Jesus is an environmentalist and wears cloth diapers. FYI.

Photo Credit: Jack Pabis (What’s Jack’s URL?)

I was the cow/narrator. Double threat. One of my nieces was the well-known, Biblical sea turtle that traveled to visit the newborn Jesus (lower right, sea turtles sometimes get stage fright and hang with the three kings, one of which wears a giant polka dot green onesie).

(He might divorce me for posting this. We shall see!)