A Valentine Mystery

(By Mike Brinkerhoff - from Keeping Up With The Brinkerhoffs) - if you don't see the pics, just click on over!

It was the day after Valentine's Day. The day before, I'd given my sweetheart a nice chocolate heart, one that was a little too big to eat all in one setting. Unfortunately, she didn't think to lock it away when she was done with it, and it went missing. Really. Stealing a Valentine's Day Chocolate Heart. Who would do such a thing?



Ahh yes. I know this perpetrator. She's the cause of a lot of missing items around these parts... And she's a little too good at playing innocent, if you get my drift.



My sweetheart was pretty sure she recognized the melting brown mass in the perp's fingers, but didn't want to show too much of her hand. So she played it cool, and asked if maybe the kid had seen a Chocolate Heart... But oh, this kid is as smooth as the creamy milk chocolate she had smeared all over her face.



Then, as if she was trying to prove that she really IS the most cunning little thief in town, she actually had the nerve to offer to help track down the missing sweetness!



Now my sweetheart is certainly sweet, but she's got her limits. This kid was quickly approaching the line, with no signs of slowing down. So Mommy put her foot down on the little searching party...



Without even increasing her heart rate, this cool little cucumber plays right along, acting all surprised when the missing treasure suddenly appears where her hand had been just a few seconds earlier!



Somethin' tells me this kid could wind up in politics someday!