The last few days, Dash has given himself a very important job.
He spends about 15 minutes after he wakes up, opening the four different vitamin bottles that the kids take.
He sets four piles of four gummies each, and prides himself on giving the girls the pink ones, and the boys the yellow ones.
And this morning, he took it a step forward.
He brought me my prenatal vitamin that I take each day!
He even brought it in water, because he knows I take it with water…and he said he wanted to make it easy for me!
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Good job Vitamin boy!
Dash is my toy boy. He loves every kind, but especially cars. He could play with his cars for hours. But today, he discovered Bay Blades. And his cars took a seat on the back burner all day. And all I heard to day was, “Bay Blade, Bay Blade….let ‘er RIP!!!” And then about 45 seconds later, there was major celebrations because his Bay Blade went extra long, or defeated Scout’s Bay Blade!
Pippi cruises a few times a day with her favorite hat.
She loves the look, the warmth, and especially the balls that wipe her dirty mouth, and even her snoofy nose.
So, it’s safe to say that her favorite hat, is not anyone else’s favorite hat.
I couldn’t find my phone, long after the kids went to bed. But my suspicions were right, when I found it in Scout’s room. When I inspected it, I realized that he had an alarm set for 4:00 am. And my further suspicions, of him wanting to get up really early to make me a birthday breakfast, were confirmed in the morning.
We made S’Mores at our pack meeting tonight.
It’s funny to see my kid’s cooking techniques.
Scout and Navy (and Pippi by association) subscribe to “Quality over Quantity”.
They like their mallows lightly toasted.
And Dash is a believer in “Quantity over Quality”.
He will do raw or burnt…as long as he’s got a marshmallow in his face!
Micah was in L.A. this morning, so I got to take the kids to school.
I told them if they went to bed perfectly the night before, and got up quickly — and got their stuff done fast, that we could go to Bagels.
I think we were hovering over a world record in how fast these kids had everything done, so we had ample time to go get bagels.
I’ll admit that I love that Micah takes them to school.
But I’ll also admit that hanging with these three in the morning is really fun.
They are beyond sweet at that time, and we all love that Dash is now part of the morning ritual on Thursdays.
I was looking over Scout’s homework to make sure it was done well, written nicely, and was complete. After reading a story at school, one of his assignments was to answer a few comprehension questions. The first question asked, “Describe the Fruitless Mountain”. Apparently this is the poor and desolate location of the story. His answer was “Fruitless Mountainis a “, and the rest was erased. When I looked past his lousy erasing job, I read, “a worthless piece of crap”.
Should I be happy that he erased that? Or should I be worried that he wrote it in the first place?
I went with happy that he corrected his poor choice of description.
And then I had him complete it properly.
Pippi’s vocabulary is beyond her years.
But the best is when she picks up slang, or phrases from older people, and uses them…or shall we say over uses them.
Before, it was “Oh My Gossss”!
She would see something scary, and say, “Oh My Gosss”!
She would hurt herself and repeatedly say, “Oh My Gosss”!
And when something is really bad, she covers her eyes, and says “Oh My Gosss” about 15 times.
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But a week has gone by, and there is a new phrase in town.
Now everything is “by the way”.
“Mom, I am going down the stairs, by the way”.
or
“By the way, my tummy real hurts”.
or
“By the way, Dashy is my best friend, by the way”.
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I better watch my slang, and make sure it is appropriate to come out of a two-year-old’s mouth!
Sometimes, cereal for dinner is is the best idea ever.
Tonight was one of those night.
It is pretty rad that Scout read this to me this afternoon.
But even more rad, is that in all of this chicken scratch, it says, “I love my mom”!
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