"Actually, with Lulu, I think stabbed would be getting off easy. I'd expect to see several small countries obliterated from the planet."
The hair-petting is nice. Miniver isn't as utterly melted by it as his husband and Bill are, but he likes it. He starts to calm down -- more because any physical contact has that effect on him.
"I guess it would be a bad idea to open a betting pool on which parent would cause the most destruction in the event of something happening to the kids, huh?"