Alex was mostly well behaved, but there were spurts of him letting Sam get them both riled up. Sam on the other hand was out of control. I don't know if we need to get him out in public more or what, but he goes loony when we are out of the house. It doesn't matter where. Alex's school, restaurants, Menard's, funeral homes. Doesn't matter. He goes insaneo. Mostly a lot of running and "tripping" and rolling around on the floor laughing. It's super fun and is a perfect time to display my stellar parenting skills under the watchful judging gaze of other adults.
Things settled for a hot minute once we got into the little room to shuffle all the paperwork. But as soon as Sam got acclimated to that room, he was back into wild mode. I am not exaggerating when I say he went from pretending to be a cat to a dog to a rabbit to a frog in a one minute time span. The postal worker just looked at us like, "Wow.....good luck."
And then we had to take their pictures. That was ridiculous. Alex immediately did his weird squinted eyes, closed mouth smile face. The postal worker told him that he didn't need to smile and needed to have his eyes open. So then Alex sat up super straight, completely dropped any smile, and bugged his eyes open. That did three things: 1. Made the postal worker laugh. 2. Made Travis blurt out, "Dude, you don't need to look like a serial killer!" 3. Made Alex's eyes hurt and water because it was bright outside the window he was facing, and his light blue eyes "melt" in bright light.
Sam wouldn't sit still and then did his best impersonation of a suspicious Dr. Seuss character.
Some custom's agent is gonna get a kick out of these passport pictures...
