There’s no denying that today was “TEH SUCK!”  I won’t bore with you with all the boring work-related, hormonal, cable getting switched off details but let’s just all agree that Slackermama and Slackerpapa will be getting pissed on Gin and Tonics.  However the day wasn’t without it’s highlights as witnessed by:

1)  Evie’s reaction to me calling her a “Pretty Pretty Princess” when I get home every evening.  Note the skirt part of her outfit hiked up due to her constantly pulling at it.  She’s going to be one of those little girls that rocks back and forth holding up her dress saying “Papa! Papa you know what?  Papa! You know what?”  I’m in big trouble:

2) Liam seeing an Oreo logo on a table card at Wendy’s and remarking:  “Cookie!”  What’s even more remarkable than knowing the logo is the fact that this kid has probaly had a grand total of 2 Oreos his entire life since we are huge cheapskates and buy the knockoff brands like “Hydrox” (does that sound like laundry detergent to anyone else?).  His brother is profoundly intelligent and so far Liam looks like he’s following in his footsteps.  One of them is bound to be an evil genius.

3) Harry purchasing two bags of candy at the store and offering me some:

Harry: Papa, you want some?
me: What is it?
Harry: Skittles!
me: What the hell is a “Skittle?”
Harry: *giggles like a little girl*

Well at least we now know which one will be the evil genius.

When I got home from work this evening I greeted each of my twitlins as usual and grabbed up Evie and the camera so I could snap some pics hoping for one of her famous smiles.  I couldn’t get her to smile because she was too interested in what I was doing:

Meanwhile Liam was watching tv and I thought this would make a cute picture.  You know how sometimes a wildlife photographer will go missing and all they’ll find is his camera and when they develop the pictures there are all these pics of a grizzly bear getting closer and closer?  These pictures remind me just how dangerous wildlife can be:

Once on my lap he started grabbing the camera and I had it aimed towards Harry.  Liam decided the little silver button on the camera was fun to click and Harry played along: 

He snapped off one final picture before I finally wrestled the camera from his grubby little hands:

And he and Harry proceeded to be the monkeys they are:

While at the grocery store last night my wife took our 2 year old, Liam, down the snack aisle.  In the meantime Harry and I ran to the back of the store (why the hell is the milk always on the opposite of the store and in the very back?…they design stores like that on purpose just to piss me off) to get my wife a half gallon of her uber speacial skim milk so that the poor dear could have cereal in the morning.  As we came back they were coming out of the snack aisle and Marilyn informed me that Liam had just said “cookie!”  This was very surprising news since neither of us had heard him say this before and he has been getting very frustrated that he can’t tell us what he wants.  Needless to say much love and encouragement was poured over him in the checkout line as we let him play with the Keebler peanut butter filled fudge cookies we picked out to celebrate the moment.  As for the cookies?  Well even though we thought we had purchased them they must have gotten misplaced somewhere in the checkout line and could not be found in our bags of groceries . however we’re still stoked that he’s picked up a new word since we are taking him this next week to get evaluated by speech therapist since he is lagging behind in his talking.  For now though he can have all the cookies he wants.