L'N Hiding in Plain Sight

 

"Bye, Bye ... Luv U ..." SMOOCH {Blowing Kisses}!

New Lil' Ninja Recruit Training

 

Uncle Carmine in training with his newest L'N recruit ... Nephew Jacob!

L'N Monkey-Sense

During a recent trip between adventures our Lil' Ninja, Carmine, recalls one particular element of his vast L'N training that at times he would just as soon forget ... "Monkey Business!" We should explain for our non-ninja readers. As a Ninja one needs to be agile, flexible, and able to move quickly and quietly from one location to another. Sound like an animal you may have recently visited at the Bronx Zoo? You got it -- Monkey Business!

Carmine's self-initiated M-B Training began when he was 10 months old under the clever cover story of his first Halloween costume. With his flare for the dramatic in full force, Carmine insisted on a bit of character acting in order to "get in the monkey mood." After donning his full-body monkey outfit, he solicited the assistance of Daddy & MommyNinja to transport and position him in a local forest with one of their L'N trainers. The environment was complete!

For several hours, our L'N practiced his Monkey-Ninja Katas until he mastered the intricate martial arts moves to near perfection.

"Touch left over right, right over left," L'N can hear the Monkey-Ninja Master instruct from that day so very, very long ago (7 months is a VERY long time when you've only been around 17 after all).

"Taste the fluid movements of the monkey, my lil' ankle-biting ninjas! Can you taste it?"

"See how he moves; visualize how he glides effortlessly from tree to tree ..."

"Smell the subtle musk of the Monkey-Ninja in his element ... No Frank, put your diaper back on ... DO NOT THROW POO ... not just yet anyway!"

"Finally, what do you hear my stinky poo-throwing monkey ninjas? NOTHING! Ninjas are silent warriors my babies! Go forth, fight crime, capture Those Dirty Pirates ... THEN throw poo Frank!"

Carmine received a perfect score on Monkey-Ninja Katas #1-3, and was even recognized for the most authentic monkey call ... not a bad day's training with all said & done!

Today, of course our mini super hero helps other L'N learn their moves and develop their skills: monkey calling skills, nunchuck skills, Dirty Pirate locating skills, and of course ... poo-throwing skills! Until the next time we meet ... thanks for visiting (tell your friends)!

[All photos are used with the permission of Heather Hayduk of Oriani Photography - all rights reserved - check out her work on their Facebook page]




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Spy Mission at Bronx River Walkway

Saturday was an absolutely beautiful day for a walk in the park with MommyNinja & Daddy -- nice stroll, some picture-taking for the adults, and of course ... a Super Secret Spy Mission for our L'N superhero! Picnic lunch packed, the L'N Family piled into the L'N Mobile and headed to the secret rendezvous point for this mission, the Bronx River Parkway Walkway. For our out-of-town readers, this walkway runs along the Bronx River from north of White Plains, NY south into the Bronx and offers some wonderful scenery, miles of paved walking/running path, several small waterfalls & bridges, and of course ... SPIES!

There were several suspicious characters that L'N and his family observed along the way. First, there was the middle-aged man with no shirt on laying in the grass with his bright white little dog sitting on his chest.  L'N considered this odd scene silently to himself.

"I mean, REALLY? What self-respecting guy sits in a public park with no shirt on and a yapping white  lap dog on his chest?" L'N thought. "This MUST be our spy!" But just then the shirtless dog man's obviously better half returned, and L'N ruled him out.

Our L'N passed several other potential clandestine spy contacts along the path; all turned-out to be false alarms:

• a group of 4 girls walking their unfriendly yellow dog, 
• a quiet couple sitting on a bench with their gorgeous tan greyhound panting heavily (L'N actually initiated contact with this one by speaking to the greyhound in super-secret "Pantineze," but she was just a normal dog in need of a drink of wa-wa), and
• a group of "Honkers" (geese) who just happened to cross the path right in front of Daddy & L'N while MommyNinja was grabbing a quick run up ahead ... nothing.

Then, just when L'N was about to give up and classify the mission a busto-roonie, a very friendly elderly gentleman approach our secret superhero for the second time that day. His cover was AMAZING, L'N couldn't tell if he was in full body make-up, or he really was an 85 year-old spy ... it was that good! Truth-be-told, L'N almost missed the undercover rendezvous with his contact.

It wasn't until the friendly elderly gentleman had passed and spoke to L'N a second time that our L'N Family realized that he was missing the cute tan slouch hat that he had been wearing during their earlier interaction! Several yards down the path L'N noticed the tan hat placed just-too-perfectly-centered on a park bench, then it clicked! THE HAT! He silently signaled to MommyNinja. After cautiously checking for a self-destruct mechanism, she picked-up the hat, nonchalantly turning away from Daddy & L'N. Covertly, she carefully retrieved the super-secret spy micro-chip from under the rim of the spy prop, before turning back to Daddy & L'N.

"Think I can catch him?" MommyNinja asked Daddy.
"I don't know," responded Daddy, "He's already around the bend and out of sight. Pretty quick for an elderly gentleman; isn't he?"
"I'm gonna try," replied MommyNinja with a almost imperceptible wink towards L'N.

With that, MommyNinja was off like a flash running to catch-up with with the covert agent. Of course, she caught him, returned his little slouch hat, and nobody was the wiser. The L'N Family finished their stroll back towards the L'N Mobile, snapping photos and enjoying the wonderful weather the day had brought them.

Until our next mission ... be safe, love life and each other, and as Gandhi once said,
"Be the change you want to see in the world!" Lil' Ninja is OUTTA HERE ... thanks for reading ;-)

  
[All photos are used with the permission of Heather Hayduk @ Oriani Photography - all rights reserved - check out her work on Facebook -> HERE]