i scream, you scream, we all scream....

so i always wondered how babies ended up sitting amid piles of cherrios

and secretly thought those photos were staged by the parental units.

until....last night,

Charlie was finishing off some ice cream and threw the lid into the trash.

A few "too-quiet" moments later we started to wonder where our little monkey went too.

J-bird had opened the trash can and fished out the lid.

this is what we found in the kitchen 

someone is ready for his birthday cake!