Our Strong Man

John is at a very imitative stage, giving us many opportunities for hilarity. Recently he must have witnessed me straining at something (opening a jar? who knows) because he suddenly began pretending to strain when lifting, pulling, squeezing, and so forth. Sometimes he uses props, sometimes he uses nothing, as in the pictures below. Now it has become a game that John and I play back and forth, pretending to strain at something that isn't really hard. In the pictures below, I actually just asked John to "squeeze for Mama!" and he did. Note the taut ligaments in his neck! What an actor!