wooo ooooo

Josie wakes us up by entering the room with a flashlight. I feared I was trapped by the NBC Mystery Movie icon.

Disney Inspires My Child to Violence!!!!

The other day I'm sitting on the floor when Josie sneaks up behind me and hits me hard on the head with her plastic frying pan. As the sting in my dome shrinks, I blame myself for watching the Three Stooges when she was 3 months old. But then she says something shocking, "I'm Punzel!" And she tries to hit me again with the frying pan.

She was reenacting the violence found in Disney's "Tangled." In their version of the Rapunzel story, the long haired heroine smashes people with a frying pan. This was never the case when I was a kid. There was just a tale of a tower and long hair. Rapunzel wasn't inflicting blunt force trauma to people.

Thanks to Disney I now have to lock up all the real frying pans in the house.

Didn't Disney learn anything for the Andy Capp frying pan murders in 1964? There's no child-like fun in slamming a frying pan onto a head. You want to know what happens to Snow White and Cinderella's dads? I bet they were killed with frying pans.

The kid has gone off to visit grandma for the night. I'm overwhelmed by the impending joy of waking up when I damn well want to. The fear is that I'll wake up at 6:20 a.m. anyway.

What a name

Josie has this stuffed dog on a leash that she has named Chuckysue. Where did that come from? She won't tell me if it is a boy or girl doggy. It's this the weirdness I get for letting her watch RuPaul's drag race when she was 8 months old?

On the Radio

While driving around town, "Good Vibrations" comes on the radio. Josie shouts out, "Beach Boys!" I'm so proud that she guessed right and she's not even 3 years old. This might be the last time I'm proud of her musical taste.

Future Jobs

There's something weird when the toddler can say, "Accidents happen" with the calm and sincerity that makes her perfect to be a PR Flack for a destructive and secretive industry.

The Punishment

This family is being evicted because their toddler makes too much noise. We wouldn't have been evicted because of Josie, we're be hung family style.

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