Parent of the Year

Unbeknownst to me, Mark has been competing for the Parent of the Year award. His first submission entailed allowing Kessler to entangle himself with a table located in our foyer. Apparenly Mark heard some grunting and grumbling, similar to someone who might be quite frustrated. The ensuing investigation uncovered the following:




For perspective, this is the table without the adornment of my child:




Pretty good, but fearing he would be outdone, Mark decided to up his game. Yesterday, I had an appointment so he took the kids to the park for a BBQ. Kessler was crawling around under the picnic table when suddenly, he started to gag and cough. Being the ever so attentive father, Mark swept him up into his arms. At which point Kessler spat out something similar to the following:



..unfortunately, this was not a fresh piece of gum that Kessler was gnawing on nor was it Mark's.