He's developing his father's skill with the zinger

Lincoln doesn't talk a whole lot. It's not that he's anti-social but he usually sits back and just takes in everything around him. I'm the one that chatters all the time. When we go out with others Lincoln just sits back, nursing his beer, and then - out of nowhere - comes out with the PERFECT one-liner. It's a skill he inherited from his father who does the same thing.

And now Jake is developing that skill.

I know you're saying to yourself, "Wait, Jake never shuts up. How could he sit back and wait for the perfect moment?"

Well, tonight he did.

Our niece Kayla came down for dinner tonight. After the main course the kids made "peanut butter roll-ups" with peanut butter and flour tortillas which Kayla invented. Hannah and Kayla went off on this whole long conversation about building a business around this idea. The whole conversation was hilarious with one or both of them cutting the other out of the business at one point or another. And for some random reason Hannah kept bringing up the fact that they had to make enough money to cover income tax. She's a smart kid.

But anyhoo.....

There was talk of Kayla cutting Hannah out of the business because she didn't like some of Hannah's ideas for expansion. After some good natured bantering back and forth she said to Hannah, "I'd never kick you out. You're family. That's how I roll."

And Jake, who had surprisingly been silent this entire time says:

"What am I, chopped liver?"