Somehow I thought it would be a while before my kid did things that totally mortified me in front of other people. Not so!



On Tuesdays, my mother in law L comes over to watch Jasper so I can work. They play together and I tap away at my computer making documents look important and all kinds of stuff that seemed much more critical before I had a little person around the house who is always doing something entertaining.



This afternoon we were sitting in the dining room discussing logistics for Thursday, a complicated day that promises to live up to a title like Clusterfuck Thursday (I'll report back on that). Jasper had been playing close by in the living room (or so we thought -- apparently he had been in my room). Suddenly, he walked back into the room, pulling a pair of my underwear over his head like a t-shirt. He looked up at us all innocent like What? Doesn't everyone have a pair of panties around their neck today? as we howled laughing. He started to laugh too, and strutted around with his chest out for a minute, very puffed up at the reaction he was getting. Then he pulled them back up on top of his head and then yanked them down with both hands like he was pulling a kerchief down over his ears.



At this point, we were in tears laughing, and L was holding her hands over her mouth like people do when kids are doing something unbelievably funny/horrible. So Jasper threw the panties aside and clapped both of his hands over his mouth as if he were tee-heeing to himself about how funny he was. I grabbed the camera as soon as I could think to do it, but of course by then it was all over.



And that is the end of my entry for today, because now he is dragging the vacuum cleaner toward the living room, while nodding and saying BaBOOM! (vacuum). He would like us to do some tidying up. It's a good idea -- apparently I have some laundry to put away in my room.