"Junior"

Not good pics, but anyways because kids can also be as fun or more than dogs and cats, especially when they're technically not mine so I can send him back home with his real parent(s) after he entertains me for a couple of hours. And yup, I know how selfish that sounds... ;-)

He is one of my sorta/kinda 'grandsons-in-law' I guess...my current partner's son's child who is 5 going on 6. I'm his "Uncle Tim", he's known me for about half of his life so far, and he visited earlier today for awhile with his Pops -- he hasn't been here for a month or more and when he got here first came running to me in my office chair saying "I missed you Uncle Tim". What's NOT to love about that???

He likes flashlights and magnets and drawing pictures, a clipboard with paper on it for him to draw on is what he's holding, while we both played together for a little while while his Pops and Grandpops otherwise went running an errand. Uncle Tim even let him play with a real pointy pair of scissors, with the same paper he'd been drawing on, because he wanted to show me a particular part of one of his drawings. Then we went out to the backyard to play with the dogs -- whether he remembers it or not, *he* was the one that gave Oreo momma her name...

I DO look forward to continuing to watch him keep growing up -- he's most definitely a "smart one", who could very well end up being one of our world's next famous people, whether he becomes a drummer, artist, or brain surgeon, or whatever-the-h*ll-else *he* decides he wants to be as he keeps growing.

And once more, what's NOT to love about all that...??? :-) :-) :-)