Williamsburg Smorgasburg!

This past weekend, I took the socks out to Williamsburg, Brooklyn for Smorgasburg (a Brooklyn Flea Food Market). It was a lovely day and they were excited to get out!

The weather was beautiful, the people were out, and the twins were just enjoying a chance in scenery.

But there was danger....

At the food market, we spotted the scary man.

His back was turned so the socks and I fled for our lives. We were lucky that the bad man didn't know they were there, or else he would certainly have tried to kidnap them!

Anyhoo....

Later that night, the socks would go to their first concert at the Knitting Factory. While they tend to like pop more than rock, they seemed to enjoy the show a lot. They even tried to dance around on my feet though I resisted!

It was a fun weekend for the twins. They're initial fear from seeing the bad man from afar was wiped out once we fled. Hopefully, we will not have such a close call again!

Eric is at Comicon

Today the twins asked me a surprising question. They asked me about Eric and whether this evil man will ever try to abduct them. I was surprised by this question which seemed to come out of the blue. I think they've been sneaking in some TV viewing and caught some bit on the news about some kid being kidnapped or something. Remind me to set the parental socks controls so that doesn't happen again.

Anyway, I explained to them that Eric is like a villain in a superhero comic. But that just like in comic books, the good guys win! And that the villains may have some power, but eventually the forces of good will always beat the forces of evil! They seem to buy this as I pointed to examples in movies like Spider-man, Avengers, Superman, Batman, etc. Good thing that all Hollywood movies follows the "good guy wins" formula.

Yes, it was a bit contrite, but they're little socks and they don't need to know the truth about how evil people work. I did tell them that Eric was far away in California (ironically he's at comicon this weekend). So they had nothing to be afraid of!

Whew! Who know being a parent to a pair of socks was so hard!