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and then she said...

Cami Kaos

14 Jan 2009

We were sitting around before bedtime having a little chat, Mike and K and I, when K decided to ask Mike if he would put on an "Animal Show" at her birthday this year. She's having a Jungle theme you see and no Jungle theme birthday could be complete with out a guy showing "dangerous animals" (aka our cats and my rubber snake) to a bunch of kids, right?

"Is the entire point of your birthday just to make me look funny?" he asked her.

She replied with an exasperated sigh and then said with the most serious tone I've ever heard, "Daddy, you're never funny."

Yeah, that had to hurt.

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