Heh...actually I've been able to bribe them a few times this year. Free food usually works for Bilbo, if not for any of the others.
What's the point of bothers hanging around if you can't put 'em to work? Not that mine have done me any good, they're too little to do anything useful.
We went to my littlest brother's baseball picnic last night... it was mostly boring. Made me thankful that he has Down Syndrome, though, not something more severe like some of the kids there had. Saw a mother pushing her probably-teenaged son around in a giant stroller...
Oh, yeah, and there's this local chain of restaurants whose signature is a cookie with a smiley-face painted on. Someone brought a whole box of them - and another whole box from the same place with frownie-faces instead. It was quite amusing to see everyone trying to get a frownie cookie.