My little nutjob

It goes without saying that Linus is totally effing cute. Like, melt-your-face-off cute.



See? Of course, he's not as cute as your kid, that goes without saying, but only yours. Everyone else's kid pales in comparison.

So, he's cute, but also... total nutjob. That is, in fact, one of his nicknames, "Nutjob" (it's overtaking "Peeps" as Most Commonly Used, as he doesn't peep anymore).

What's that? You doubt me?

Allow me to elaborate. He is, of late, completely enamored with two things; pretending to blow his nose, and throwing away tissue. Well, there are others, but these are the ones we're talking about today. He often combines his two loves. He's watched very carefully whenever he's seen someone blow their nose. Apparently, he thinks what we're actually doing is sniffing the tissue before we throw it away. I don't know if he's come up with reasons as to why we're doing this, all that's evident is he wants to do it too. If we leave a box of tissues within his reach, he will take one out, sniff it, and throw it away, over and over again, until the entire box is gone. Same with a roll of toilet paper. Sometimes with the toilet paper, he'll forego the sniffing and go right to the throwing away part. And he's not constrained to throwing things away into the garbage. He'll often "throw things away" into a drawer, or a box, or my shoulder bag.

Over, and over, and over, and over.

I have evidence. Video evidence! If you click on the link below, it will take you to a page with 2 short video clips. You have to click on the images to get the clips to download before you can play them. Be patient. Depending on how much server traffic there is it can take awhile to download. In the top one you will see the Sniff, Throw Away, and in the bottom one you'll see the Throw Away Not In The Garbage.

See the videos here.

I love how in the second one, if you look closely, you can see that the drawer is already full of wadded up tp. He'd been at it awhile.

Now tell me that isn't nutty!