I'm in the market for a new camera (when am I not?) so one day last week I drug the girls with me to Crick's to go check one out. On the way there we went over all the rules. All THREE of them.

No touching.
No fighting.
Be quiet.

Repeat after me, girls. No touching. No fighting. Be quiet. No touching. No fighting. Be quiet.

Apparently I forgot to add the ones about not ratting out your dad and not saying things that might embarrass your mom. So while I'm chatting with Miss Angie about batteries, grips and flash cards the girls spot a man in the corner who works at the store. On the phone with his back to us he evidently overheard what The Ruler had to say (and apparently wasn't offended by it - Thank God!) because he turned around smiling and laughing almost uncontrollably.

"Hey, that guys is taller than his hair," she said as The Lu chimed in with, "Yeah, our daddy has a bald head just like that guy."

And within an instant that good humored man's uncontrollable laughter spread to the rest of us in the camera shop as The Ruler blurted out, "Yeah, and our daddy laughs like a girl!"