To counteract the dee-pression in the last couple of entries to this blog, here is a cute picture of my kid:

I stole that pic off our friend Sam’s blog because I didn’t have my camera that day. I’ve been noticing that we don’t nearly take as many pictures of Luki as we used to. This parenting thing is soo old news to us now.

If you know us is in real life and have friended us on Facebook, then you probably remember the avalanche of photographs on my husband’s wall after our son’s birth. Entire albums titled, “Luki’s first day,” “Luki’s second day,” “Luki: Days 3, 4, and 5,” “Luki comes home,” “Luki goes to the park,” etc. By now, I think we’ve already established to the Internet that our son has a serious case of The Cute, so unless it’s his birthday or we’re on vacation, we don’t really pull out the camera much.

That picture was taken last weekend at a show Ton Ton’s band was doing in a local restaurant. Luki had a blast clapping to the beat of the music and running around the wide open space.

He also made a new friend. A puppy.

We’ve taught him all about puppies through picture books and stuffed animals, but Ton Ton and I don’t own any pets so he doesn’t get to interact with real live guau guaus* very often.

(*Spanish, dogs say guau guau, not woof woof. Also, frogs say crua crua instead of ribbit. Apparently animals can get lost in translation too.)

Anyway, he loves furry creatures. He hugs and kisses and licks and bites and jumps on his stuffed puppies all the time. Because he loves them, obviously. And that is exactly what he tried to do to the real life canine at the restaurant.

He headed straight for the puppy, arms wide open, repeating guau guau guau guau. And before we could stop him, his skin and the puppy’s fur had come in contact.

Wait. Have I not mentioned that Big E was with us?

Yea. She was. And she lost her marbles. Because the baby touched the dog, and dogs are dirty, and I can’t believe you don’t carry a bottle of hand sanitizer in your diaper bag and we REALLY need to teach him the difference between toy animals, which are cute, and real animals, which harbor deadly diseases in every inch of their bodies!!

It was hilarious. And immediately after, Luki picked up a rock and put it in his mouth, sending her completely over the edge. This child is going to get an infeeeeeeeeeection!!

I think he does it on purpose. And I love him so much more for it.