Scout has been a little wild lately, and has ended up with his first scraped knee. I love that he knows all about his boo boo, and loves to point at when I ask. We were at Downtown Disney, when he took about five or six spills. I don’t know which fall resulted in the knee, but when I was getting him out of his stroller to put him in his car seat, I found the wound. He must have thought I was crazy, but I clapped and cheered for him because he got his first scraped knee! When we showed his dad, Micah responded with, “I am so glad he is finally getting bumps and bruises.” Sounds a little sadistic, but I get it. He is turning ALL BOY!
First scraped knee
Payback
For family night last week, Micah caught a huge spider and put it in Tupperware. I taught Scout about spiders….(they have eight legs, kill them when you see them) for our little activity. Micah thought it was really funny to keep trying to scare everyone with it, including my mom who is too fragile to be scared in my opinion. (Granted, I did lead the way on this one, but the last time I scared her, it was JOKE GONE WRONG! So I have now quit!) Skilly and the ladies were over, and as they left, Micah obviously had to pull one last scare. He got rid of the spider, and put a flower in the same Tupperware. When Skilly had her back turned, Micah unloaded the “spider” onto her head. And let me remind you how huge it was….HUGE! Skylar freaked out to the tune of screaming, tears and running all around. Another one of those “joke gone wrongs”. When the commotion died down, I just stealthily walked by Skylar and said, “don’t worry, we will get him back.”
The next day after school, Skylar did her homework faster than ever and we were on to “the plan”. She had a lot of creative ideas, but I knew Micah would be on to us. I told her we had to think of something that would be totally unexpected….something in his daily routine that would take him by surprise. We finally came up with putting a nasty concoction all over the handle of the trash cans he takes out every Tuesday. We set it up, and were just hoping to see him take out the trashes while we were all around.
Micah returned home from work. To our excitement, he put a dirty diaper in the trash, and decided to take the trashes out to the street then and there. Skylar, Calin and I were all high-fiving. Next thing you know, the gross trashcan was being wheeled out, and he didn’t even blink twice about it. Did our plan fail? We saw his hand right on it. What was going on?
Luckily Calin happened to be back by the trashes when it happened and got the real scoop. When he grabbed the trashcan, he pulled back his hand really fast, looked at it, realized he had been “gotten”, and mumbled, “little turds”! When Calin came out and told us the story, we were cracking up. Then Micah came and told us that he knew he needed to be careful, because we were on the rebound….so ever since he had been home from work he would “slowly” open his closet door, and “slowly” open the lid to the toilet, etc. He said he was being 100% careful, until he just grabbed the trashcan.
Skylar…..we did good! But I don’t need to tell her that. When she looked over at Micah cleaning up the mess on the handle, she looked back at me with the complete look of accomplishment. Nice job Skilly!
A perfect weekend
This weekend consisted of watching conference (my favorite!), hanging out as a family all day Saturday and Sunday, eating delicious food (our traditional coffee cake in between sessions, and my mom’s famous roast for dinner) and capping it all off with one of the greatest love stories ever - The Notebook.
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