Adam hates my Leo Manatee song. Here is our conversation tonight:
Adam: Leo is so cute. He's so tough. Do you want to know what I call him?
Catie: What do you call him?
Adam: I call him a gentle giant.
Catie: Kind of like a manatee?
Adam: CATIE. Come on. A manatee is not a gentle giant. It is a gentle sea cow. It is a fat, slow, cow that swims and eats lettuce. Or algae. Or whatever it eats, but it has a flipper like a platypus and gets hit by boats because it is slow.
Catie: A little like a manatee?
Adam: "Our son is not a mana-teeee, mana-teeee." (That last part was sung. Seriously.) I cannot believe we are even having this conversation.
I think I'm going to buy Leo a stuffed manatee for Christmas.
The family. We are a little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.
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