Pee Wee Bonini

The eldest Bonini, Pee Wee is sixteen. However, most of the time, he looks like a two-year-old, down to the (cloth) diapers and kew-pee curls. His looks notwithstanding, Pee Wee has a totally normal teenager’s personality: grouchy, touchy and hyper-sensitive. Tricked out in Wayfarers and a leather jacket much of the time, he’s like James Dean in diapers.

Pee Wee has willed himself to stay a toddler physically, and this shows up mentally in a predilection for terrible-two-ish temper tantrums. Thus, it’s a good thing that he telecommutes to his job as a child prodigy computer programmer. Plus, his co-workers might look askance at the way he likes to be pushed around in a stroller. Then again, maybe not.

While he waits to start college (his parents want him to outgrow the baby thing first -- he received his high school diploma a year ago), Pee Wee writes and programs shoot-’em-up computer and video games professionally, and keeps an eye on his siblings. As the oldest, and the only Bonini who can drive, Pee Wee is often called upon to perform parental functions, such as signing up for carpools, attending school conferences and completing official forms. His parental functions and age often conflict with Bikini’s natural leadership, but his huge ego usually allows Bikini to manipulate her way out of trouble with him.