It is now a certainty: my little AK has the Devil in him. The CFO’s Mom called it a few weekends ago and I think she is right. Evidence:

When the Jr VP does something bad he tries to hide it, and then is sad and ashamed when you call him out on it. The AK? He will make sure you see him do whatever it is he is doing, with a huge grin and a devilish gleam in his eye the whole time. An example: the other night he kept stealing dishes from the dishwasher as the CFO was trying to load it. After several rounds of this the CFO was fairly irritated with the AK and closed the dishwasher. At this, angry at being thwarted, he walked in the other room and grabbed a (thankfully) soft baseball bat, walked past his Mommy, looked her in the eye and smiled, and then raised the bat above his head and brought it down onto the head of his brother. The AK didn’t care about his brother; he was trying to punish Mommy. He got in serious trouble for that one, but really, how do you punish a not-quite-two year old? We put him in “time-out” and he just sits there and smiles the whole time. I hope it is just a stage. Demonic possessions go away on their own, right?

Not that the Jr VP is an angel all the time either, but a problem (one among many) with him is that on occasion the CFO and I will disagree on what is appropriate behavior for the lad. The other afternoon when some kids were walking behind our property to get to the street below us they were spotted by Stinkboy. He rushed to the open window: “GET OFF OF MY LAWN!!!. His parents were respectively aghast/angry and amused/impressed. I will leave it to you, Gentle Reader, to guess to whom to assign those particular responses.