he never cracked a smile

You would think from the look of these pictures that Everett was very pissed off.

You'd be wrong.

He was so intensely concentrating on the sprinkler that there WAS NO TIME FOR SMILING, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

He was a total mess by the time we brought him in the house, covered in mud and grass. And wow, did he cry. How could we have taken him from the sprinkler and - gasp!! - dried him off? The injustice!

Oh, and I had to photoshop out his black eye from these. Poor guy pulled something off the bathroom counter yesterday and it nailed his eye. He has a big open wound and accompanying bruise (in the shape of the Nike "Swoosh," as Mark noticed) under his right eye. Looks like he's been in a boxing match, poor kid.