Cooper has a somewhat crazy obsession with the little purple half-round located in the right compartment of the pen organizer.

It’s this little “toy” i got as a prize for playing some arcade games with my nieces years ago. This “toy” is actually just a half-round piece of rubber that is hollow on the concave side. The fun in it is that when you bend it inside out, and set it flush on a hard, flat surface, it then “pops” about 5 or 6 feet high in the air. It’s pretty amazing, actually.

But, as i said, Cooper has developed somewhat of an obsession with it (and with the pink one peeking out beneath the purple one.) Usually i keep the “poppers,” as we call them, up on my desk, but, in a moment of madness in trying to de-clutter my office (good luck with keeping that up!) i put the poppers in my little pen organizer. Well, as you can see, it wasn’t long before Cooper had discovered them.

Here he has actually been “fishing” in the organizer, managing only to pull out the folded-up piece of paper cluttering up my office!!! laying next to the organizer.

Note the “Mr. Innocent” look he has perfected over the years…