Hasses aren't only avocados.

Pater: The Ascent of Avocado Juniors

Posted by Pater , Tuesday, October 2, 2012 12:13 AM

It seems that Avocados are bloody good for you.  High in protein and healthy fats, low in sugar and packed with potassium and vitamins K, B, C and E.  All of this is evidently working out for the fruits themselves, which always have a robust look about them (though Pater questions one website's description of them as "meat substitutes".  Sorry tofu-lovers but nothing substitutes meat!).
What's true for the fruit, certainly seems to be true for our Avocado Juniors.  How else can Pater explain the continued growth and development in our children?  Every time I turn around (which admittedly is not too often, unless I'm chasing my own tail), there's something new.  We all still remember when AJ1 turned over in the winter of 2010 in Florida.  And yet now, only a year and a half later, she's driving on her own...
...riding long extinct animals with no help from us or Barney Rubble...
...learning how to be a real Canadian...
...experimenting with makeup...
...being taught how to beat up boys (known colloquially as "karate")...
 ...and Pater's biggest upset: starting nursery, a prison sentence that will end for her in a little over 20 years...
Okay, okay, she's a girl.  They develop quicker.  It's understandable.  Friends assured Pater he can rest easy in knowing that AJ2 will live up to his gender and evolve at a pace only slightly faster than the one in which Homo-Habilis became Homo-Sapien.  But then how to explain him going from a cute accessory or doorstop...
...to getting leg muscles...
...and learning how to use them for practical reasons...