According to the delightfully diminutive Sheryl of Paper Napkin, this is now Delurking Week. The second annual.
With that in mind, if you regularly frequent this site, and even if you irregularly infrequent this site, please take 30 seconds to post a salutory comment just below. I'd greatly appreciate it and would cherish the opportunity to get to know who reads this tripe.
If you don't, I'll pinch my son until he cries and post a photo of the cutest crying baby the world has ever known. Nobody wants that, now, do they? Great big crocodile tears blazing a path through the remnants of dried oatmeal clinging to my son's cheeks until, finally, the tears trickle into the corners of his mouth where the salty residue triggers latent memories of his time in his mother's womb; his subsequent pining will spur on a whole new round of blubbering, further propogating the emotional fiasco to the point where he will require counselling until he reaches the age of majority.
How could you be so cruel? Really!!
please don't pinch the baby... cheers from Crescent Beach, BC.
Posted by: lindsay | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 10:51 AM
I love pinching baby chub. My older boy was super super skinny, so no chub. My baby has roll upon roll of chub along with cheeks so big they form jowls. So much fun to pinch.
And you describe the crying jags so well. Please continue.
Posted by: Kristen | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 11:59 AM
Happy DeLurking Day. No Crocodile Tears on my behalf!
Claire in Calgary
Posted by: Claire | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 12:06 PM
Hullo there! I couldn't bear the guilt of you making that adorable little fellow on my account.
fhg hyny tungfytynt yn eh
Miss Mary says Hi too...and she want's to know if that cutie is single or not.
Jenn
Posted by: Jenn | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 12:14 PM
Of course I'm here. Oh, and I thought "crocodile tears" were fake tears, not big tears. I looked it up on wikipedia to be mean, because I'm not mean very often. Well, really just because I was curious. The term is also used to refer to large raindrops.
Don't pinch the boy.
Posted by: Mark | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 05:23 PM
Rolling on the floor, able to come up for breath just to post a poorly constructed sentence expressing wonderment and joy as the always thought provoking comments served up here.
BOB
Posted by: BOB | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 05:44 PM
Bonjour from the French part of the country!
Posted by: Tasha Vincent | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 05:49 PM
Only pinch him if he deserves it. :)
Dixie -- PA, Sask
Posted by: Dixie | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 06:13 PM
Blah, blah, blah.
Just me.
Posted by: Linda | Monday, 09 January 2006 at 06:43 PM
Uh, not really a lurker (are you kidding? Like I could keep my mouth shut/fingers-off-the-keyboard), but here's my "Hi, Si!".
(waves hand)
Shew, close one, Dex. Sorry 'bout that, lil' buddy. Just wouldna been fair, throwing the "Cute-Off" contest that way. Might backfire on me, to boot. Some judges are a goner for a pouty lower lip on a tyke.
Posted by: elizabeths | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 04:23 AM
My parents still pinch me :(
Posted by: Alec Lynch | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 05:38 AM
Hi there. Thanks for the reminder about de-lurking week. I really need this.
Posted by: Lynn | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 06:16 AM
The only comments I can seem to manage here are how damn cute that kid is. Love the new banner....
Posted by: Hazel Hazel | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 07:03 AM
Hey, Simon. Come here. Closer.
Wookie! Wookie! Wookie!
mwuhahahahahaha!
I barely recollected the spelling Wookiee when you brought it up. Thanks!
Posted by: Mark | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 07:54 AM
happy delurking week. I've come to you from "breed 'em and weep"... (what's up with THAT lately?!) Anyway, stopped in one day when you had a picture of your munchkin up and BOY is he cute!!! SO i had to keep coming back :)
Posted by: jennie | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 12:49 PM
You can't possibly miss us unless we go away (but no risk of that from me, m'dear).
Auntie Paula says 'It's OK Declan, bad dad go away soon'.
Posted by: Paula | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 02:49 PM
Just linked by way of Dixie's site. Don't think I have ever been here before but certainly didn't want to be held responsible for contributing to what some radical may consider child abuse. Not me of course, but some other radical
Posted by: peg | Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 09:29 PM
De-Lurking, Simon! Howdy :)
Posted by: JuJuBee | Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 09:45 AM
I'm reading!
Posted by: Tammy | Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 06:38 PM
De-lurking...Hi! I have been lurking here since you posted your blog address over at Bright Weavings (where I also mostly lurk). There have been many a post that have made me want to delurk, but I'd only leave some inane thing (like I'm doing now). I loved today's ode to your wife's eyes. Lovely.
Posted by: Heidi | Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 12:33 PM
Eeep! Sorry I'm late to the party (my week's been a little crazy). Hopefully the pinching hasn't commenced. Beautiful post you've got at the top.
Posted by: Sheryl | Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 08:07 PM