Homer Simpson is my kid's roll model.

Vance has become quite addicted to watching The Simpsons. Seems innocent enough, although probably not quite age appropriate, but it is a cartoon afterall. Right? Anycrap, he likes watching The Simpsons with Christian. It's their thing.

So we converted about 6 episodes and plunked them onto my iPod Touch for our travels across the globe. I knew I would be able to sit Vance in the airport, in Germany with my iPod and he'd be entertained for at least a few minutes so that Mommy could pop a Xanax close her eyes.

I am a little ashamed to say that he watched those 6 episodes about 76 times each over the course of our two week trip.

They iPod was great for some of the down time at Gramma and Grampa's house, since they don't have cable.

I really wasn't expecting anything bad to come of it, but it seems that he's picked up some Homerisms.

We were at the food court in the Marina Mall in Abu Dhabi. (Please note that there are NO service people with white skin in this country.) We just finished ordering him some food from Popeye's and us some food from a little Indian joint.

We proceed to walk away and it goes like this;

Him-Welp, there goes another job lost to the foreigners!
Me-VANCE! Why would you say that? Where did you hear that?
Him-(a little sheepish) But Mom, that's what Homer says.

Oops.

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