Keep Your Friends Close, And Then Hit Them

The Gremlin at the Museum of Flight's Free Family Fun with Firemen Day

The Gremlin has been in rare form the last few days - driving his parents crazy like never before, so the Mother of the Gremlin jumped at the chance to take him and the Arch-Gremlin to the playground to drive each other crazy.

During a lull in their playing, the Arch-Gremlin turned to the Gremlin and smacked him on the shoulder. The Gremlin didn't miss a beat, and spoke softly.

"Jasp-air, if you do that again I'm going to have to hit you back." The Arch-Gremlin, also four, decided she needed to respond to this.

"If you do that I'll cry and tell my mom." Unlike last time, the Gremlin was one step ahead of her.

"But I'll tell my mom first, so let's just not." This was apparently acceptable to the Arch-Gremlin.

"Okay."

Just a few minutes later, she turned and smacked him again.

"Jasp-air! We just talked about this!"

"I know. I just wanted to see what would happen."

"Okay, but I am getting very frustrated with you."


A short time later they were playing at the water table, when the Gremlin turned and sprayed the Arch-Gremlin in the face. As soon as she recovered, the Gremlin looked over and bounced his curls in innocence.

"What? It was an accident."

"No it wasn't!"

"You're right, it wasn't. But i'm pretty sure it wasn't an accident when you hit me earlier."

"No, it wasn't."

And with that, the two went back to their playing without further incident.

Favorite Toy of the Week: R2D2 Play-Doh Set

The Blame Game

The Gremlin headed out today, to terrorize the rest of the families of the city. He and the Arch-Gremlin went out to the art museum to absorb the local culture. The Gremlin took his time moving through the rooms - the Mother of the Gremlin and the Arch-Gremlin's mother were enjoying the scenery slowly as well.

As it frequently occurs in these places, most of the sounds were muted, and silence fell around the Gremlin frequently. Of course, during the quietest of such times, the Gremlin struck.

While looking closer at one of the exhibits, the Gremlin felt his stomach rumble and decided to pass gas. With a clap and squeak the silence was broken, and surprised looks began coming the Gremlin's way.

Completely undeterred, the Gremlin looked at the nearest adult - a man dressed business casually who had probably wandered in over his lunch break - and spoke very loudly.

"Why did you do that? Man that really stinks!" The man's face went from white to cartoon character "exploding head" red in seconds, and he turned tail to another part of the museum. The Mother of the Gremlin waited for the looks to subside and then headed over.

"Buddy, did you blame that man for farting when you did it?"

"You bet I did!"


Favorite Toy of the Week: Lego Bionicle Dropship

The Arch-Gremlin

It seems the Gremlin has met his match, in the form of a smiliarly-aged female. He was traveling to the park the other day with this girl - who he calls 'Jasp-air' - and wanted to hold her hand.

"Jasp-air, I want to hold your hand."
"Well I don't want to hold yours." The Gremlin was being very whiny that day, so the Mother of the Gremlin tried to distract him.
"Buddy, why don't you pick up a few pine cones?" Jasp-air perked up at the Gremlin having something she didn't.
"I want pine cones!" The Gremlin looked up, his arms full, and saw his opportunity to hold her hand.
"I will give you a pine cone if you hold my hand."
"I want two pine cones."
"Okay, here you go Jasp-air." After the Gremlin handed them over, she held out both hands that were now occupied by the pine cones and shrugged.
"Sorry, can't hold your hand!"
"Well, if you're not going to hold my hand, I'm not going to give you any pine cones."
"Okay." She handed them back. The Gremlin tried again.
"I want to hold your hand."
"I want two pinecones."
"Okay."
"Can't hold your hand!"
"Well I want my pine cones back."
"Okay." After Jasp-air passed the pine cones back the Gremlin his face scrunched up.
"Hey! I don't like this game - you're smarter than me!"


Favorite Toy of the Week: Curious George stuffed animal