Peek-a-WHO?

You know the problem with starting a game of peek-a-boo with the 3 year old sitting in front of you on your flight to LAX? The game lasts for 2,000 miles. Honestly...YOU try to quit a game of peek-a-boo with a 3 yr old and let me know how that works out.

You know the OTHER problem with playing peek-a-boo with a 3 yr old during an interminable journey from Nashville to LAX? The game can only escalate. Seriously… peek-a-boo is only good enough for about 3 minutes. Then we go directly to peek-a-boo with heights by bobbing up OVER the seatback. THEN the props are introduced…a 747 safety card makes an EXCELLENT pirate hat. And the 3 year old was getting into it too.

During this entire escalating game, the poor father is in an awkward position…his son is finally occupied…but it’s with a total stranger that is sitting directly behind him and out of his line of sight. That’s when HE started playing peek-a-boo, trying to casually figure out who the hell his son was starting to play full-contact airplane games with.

And dad looked around just in time to see the apple core + 2 drink straws became a starship. I mean…how bad can someone be if they can make a starship out of a left-over apple?!? That’s about the time the DVD player came out – but don’t worry – I could see it just fine over the top of my NY Times. (Oh Tom & Jerry…do you NEVER get old?)

But the good news is that if it hadn’t been for a 2,000 mile game of peek-a-boo…you would’ve gotten 11 more posts about Molly’s cross-country trip. =)