Plantman the Terrible

The Boy’s preschool class had a project recently that involved growing a plant from a seed. He got assigned Basil. Wow!

It wouldn’t be worth mentioning if it wasn’t for the progress-chart he was mandated to fill in. I can’t pass it in the hall without breaking out in giggles.

The day he brought the finished project home—the remains of the plant and all the attendant paperwork—he explained his plant “didn’t grow very well,” but that did not keep him from posing with his victim:

Clearly, The Boy inherited his green thumb from The Incredible Hulk, not his grandmother.