Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for December 23, 2021

She’s behaving like an older child and he’s behaving like a bratty younger one.

Come Christmas afternoon Clayton’s a dead man.

I’m not touching you. I’m not touching you……

I just hope that Baby Nick and Gumbo can come down from the attic for Christmas.

BTW, they’re the only “good” members of that family; well—so is Laura.

Clayton certainly asking for it… he may be getting coal this year despite what she does to him.

A good job of rendering pester.

If Clayton’s goin’ down, he’s takin’ sis with him…

aw

Isn’t there a spray?

Give him the Moe Howard ‘Poke in the Eye’s’.

Santa Clas is understanding of a good counterpunch. He watch’s the NFL. (the one who responds usually gets flagged). Santa is all about the “instant replay”.

Turnabout is only fair, she’s done her share of taunting

Remind him that Santa KNOWS what he is doing also……

We’re in the final stretch? Is that Katy and the pea-blanket?

This is a test of the Katy trying to be good system, just a test.

My younger brothers would play the not-touching-you game to the point of maddening distraction. I was surprised to see my cat Johnny Depp playing the cat version – I’m-not-biting-you with six-months-older Kirby. He would put his teeth lightly on one of Kirby’s paws to bug him.

“Stop biting Kirby.”

“I’m not biting Kirby”

“Stop not-biting Kirby”

He would do this while both cats were on a large elevated cat bed next to the interior stairs. One day I happened to be watching when Kirby had had enough. He threw Johnny Depp down the stairwell!

“Kirby!”

“He was not-biting me.”

Down at the foot of the stairs, “I’m OK.”

Couldn’t she just tell him that HE is being bad?

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I agree with the idea that defending yourself against such deliberate provocation won’t land you on the bad list.

That boy has the devil in him!