Here's a little bit of trivia for you: On September 18, 2005 the profession of Chiropractic, founded by Daniel Palmer (or was it Bartlett Joshua Palmer?), will celebrate its 110th birthday.
Our Chiropractor hosted a "birthday" party at his clinic on Thursday. I had forgotten about the celebration but when we rolled in at 5:00 PM for our adjustments, the boys were immediately drawn in by the "moonwalk" set up in the parking lot and I knew we'd be there for awhile.
Also present was a clown, Mr. Dimples, hired to make balloon "sculptures" and paint the kids' faces. Chris is still not very trusitng of anyone dressed in a clown suit, or anyone dressed as a life-sized stuffed animal, you may recall. He was, however, willing to put aside his prejuidices to get a balloon hat.
Mr. Dimples was kind enough to work his balloon magic and sculpt a rendition of the Pope's hat for Christopher. Alex wanted a Spider and was quite happy with his inflatable arachnid despite the fact that it had only six legs.
As we were driving home, Alex said "I think this looks more like an octopus. I'm going to call it an octopus."
"But Alex," I began, "an octopus has 8 tentacles, yours would be called a...a...well, yours would be called a 6 tentacled octopus. You're right."
Listen, there's no way I'm going to have my kid be the one in Sunday school asking "Wanna see my SEXTOPUS?"