The Clap

There's this Simpson's episode where they send Santa's Little Helper to obedience school because he's destroying things, urinating everywhere, ripping up papers, etc. Bart has a deadline to get him ship shape or else Homer's going to send him to the pound. Throughout the episode you see glimpses of the goings-on through doggie-goggles, just as Santa's Little Helper does. The world is all distorted and everything that is said by humans sounds like gobbledygook, just like the adults sound in the Peanuts cartoons, "Mwa mwa mwamwamwamwa!" That's all Santa's Little Helper can hear--"mwamwamwamwa"--all day long. Then of course, just as Homer's deadline is about to strike, you get the doggie-goggles again, focused on Bart, and you hear him say, "Mwa mwa mwa mwasit! Sit! Sit! C'mon boy! Please SIT!" And the little light bulb finally goes off for Santa's Little Helper and he understands! And he sits and doesn't have to go to the pound! Hooray!

Well, Harrison had that lightbulb moment yesterday and all of a sudden, started doing something on command! All we need to do is say, "YAY!" and he claps his little hands together just like one of those wind-up cymbal-clanging toy monkeys! And, oh, I know I said this about the crawling, but it is the CUTEST damn thing you have ever seen in the world. He smiles and waves his head around and looks so proud of himself and claps away while we stand there like fools going, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"

Now if we can just get him to stop the household destruction and prolific urination, we get to keep him.