chubby

In a joking manner, Teotico described the co-worker who owed him money as a “chubby Vietnamese guy,” according to homicide investigators.

They came for the face painting and food, and their concerns are more mundane: teaching kids to read, paying the bills, finding a napkin to clean Popsicle juice off chubby toddler legs.

“He could get laughs for being funny, not for being the chubby kid,” Florenski told me.

On her windowsill, Al Holden, her son, smiles in a baby portrait, all chubby cheeks and tiny fists.

“You were a little butterball when you were a baby. You had these chubby cheeks that I swear I could’ve kissed all day. It only felt right to call you pumpkin.”