We Sure as Shit Don't Roll on Shabbas

[robotnik2004]

It's lame, perhaps achingly so, to break a three month LJ silence with nothing more than baby pictures, but my brain has atrophied to the point where this totally cracks me up:

It's true what they say: all babies hate Christmas.

Ah ha ha hee. As papersource points out, each baby is miserable in a different way. Does the t-shirt on the kid in the middle say "CHEER"? That makes it even better if it does.

I don't know why this amuses me so. Matt Baldwin posted a similar image on Defective Yeti last month, saying: Here's the funny thing about parenthood. On the one hand, having a child makes you inexplicably start loving all children. ... On the other hand, parenthood tends to make you revel in the small injuries and indignities to which children are subjected (or inadvertently subject themselves). Before, upon observing an inattentive child walk headlong into a fence post, I would gasp in alarm and rush to his aid; now I'll roar with laughter and take a mental snapshot of the scene, something to chuckle over for months to come. It's a little bit of rebellion against our masters. Hee. Fence post. It's funny 'cause it's true.

Our girl (in the extreme foreground, purple dress, bottom left) is actually among the more cheerful of the bunch. She's also the only one not wearing red velvet, on account of, you know, Yuki don't roll on Shabbas. The rest look a little like the Heaven's Gate junior auxilliary. Except for the dude rocking the plaid freaking pants and suspenders. That kid is boss.

While we're on the subject: all babies hate Halloween. (Though again, our girl is the one keeping her shit together, if not upright.)

In other news, uh, hi! Sorry about the silent running: this term's been a bear, workwise. Just two more days and we're off to some sunny island somewhere with beaches and probably no internet. We'll be in DC the week between Xmas and New Year's (is anyone reading this in that vicinity?), then back home on the 31st. I hope you and yours are happy and well.

Random wistful observation: tomorrow is the three year anniversary of the final Unknown USA session. Face shooting! Ben in the Burning Man! The Wicked Witch of the West! Sinister conjoined pickled twins! I intend to observe the date with pancakes.

Comments

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

What was her Halloween costume? It might be a lion. . .or a bananna. Please, oh please tell me you dressed you baby as a bananna, and sang "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" all day. A lion is also ok, provided she can wiggle and look cute while "Kenya" plays.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

It's GOTTA be a duck!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Give the duck man a cigar:

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

OMGCUTESTTHINGEVAR! Ok, ducks are also cool. And I guess Mike wins. But srsly, in the first pic, she's laying down? Looks like a bananna.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

Did you photoshop-blur the adult's head so it wouldn't compete with the cuteness of the child? Sneaky!

I'm always thinking!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I blurred it the old fashioned way, by whipping it from side to side while the picture was taken.

Re: I'm always thinking!

[head58.livejournal.com]

I think it means the person in the picture has <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring">seven days to live</a>.

[papersource.livejournal.com]

Our girl . . . is actually among the more cheerful of the bunch.

Another interpretation is that she has left a path of misery and destruction in her wake. That empty spot on the couch? Is where she was kicking, crying, flailing, and setting the other babies off before I moved her to the floor.

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

I clicked on the cut link thinking "Oh, a nice picture of their one child, the child I know they have, singular."

My next thought was "Yikes, no wonder he hasn't been posting much, he and papersource have apparently been manufacturing babies and can now field a very tiny football team.

[peaseblossom.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's a lot of babies.

Also: the starchild once walked straight into a wall (she was distracted, but still!) and I pretty much had to sit down, I was laughing so hard.

Also also: Yuki, still cute!

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

How about the time she was playing with a kitchen chair and it fgell over on top of her and all she said was a single, plaintive "Chair"

There really is just something about the how they get hurt that just strikes the adult mind as funny.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Is it horrible that I died laughing at that? I think it's just that I can totally hear her saying that. Also, I may not have kids of my own, but I've done enough babysitting to laugh at kids hurting themselves, I guess, because ALL of those stories crack me up.