Plastic Babies: February 7, 2013

After we'd moved our Grandma into an assisted living facility Brian, Mom and I were going through the contents of the house preparing to sell it. We had a lot of fun finding pictures we'd never seen, knick knacks we used to play with as kids and the occasional butterscotch hard candy.

For some reason he giggled so hard when we found a few small bags full of little plastic babies amongst her craft supplies. He didn't know it at the time, but I took the bags of babies with me to have a little fun. I started out by hiding the first one in his jacket... and laughed until I nearly cried when he texted me to say he'd found a creepy little plastic baby in his jacket pocket.

When I'd stay over at his place to take care of his cats, Maximus and Marcus, I'd bring a bag of babies with me and hide them everywhere. He'd find them all over the place! In a box of cereal! In a stack of towels in the hall closet! Under the driver's seat in his car! In the silverware drawer! Inside a tub of sour cream! He'd step into a shoe only to find a creepy, plastic baby stuffed into it. Damn, I'd laugh so hard every single time I'd hear from him after finding yet another one of those little things.

In fact, when we cleaned out his townhome after he died we all laughed when we continued to find the little babies everywhere! I kept them all and even have one sitting on my desk at work where I can see it every single day. Each time I look at it I swear I can still hear Brian's amazing, infectious laugh!!