After a little tirade that Scout had at Britni’s house, he wrote me an apology note.
In it, he said, “When you are reading this note, I hope you feel like the Queen of the World.”
After detailed notes of his meltdown from being a poor sport during board games, I actually don’t feel like the Queen of the World. I feel a little more like “Failure of the World” that my kid has to cheat at a game, while berating everyone that they all stink at that game.
While I appreciate the note, I am just a little confused.
Dash has had a mysterious “food ring” around his lips, every day since the day he started eating real food.
Where does it come from???
Well, after years of observing and my own scientific study (with the help of 31 Flavors)…I have solved the mystery!
Dash has extremely kissable and floppy lips.
They melt into my lips when I kiss them, which was my first clue.
As he eats, he licks his lips, as naturally we all do.
BUT….because he has these floppy lips, they fold all the way into his mouth…thus creating an almost vacuum-like seal on those lips, which creates all of the food mess to gather in a ring-like formation around his lips.
Upon solving this mystery, I have two thoughts.
First…those are going to be lips that every single girl on earth is going to want to kiss…HOLY COW!
Second…but those same girls are going to have to get past his uninviting food ring first.
Seventy Nine years ago today, was one of the best days of my pre-mortal life!
Ballet is the highlight of Pippi’s week.
Most likely, it is because she is in it with her best girlfriends.
But the show-off part of it, is probably another reason she likes it so much.
Navy claimed Scout slapped her on the back.
He vehemently denied it.
As the good judge that I am, I came up with the most efficient way to get to the truth.
I made Navy lift her shirt, so I could see the “so-called” slap evidence.
BUSTED!
Look at Daddy making a heart for Pips, on their FaceTime call.
For Family Night tonight, we talked about patience. We talked all about having patience with each other and with others. We talked about how patience is a good virtue, and how patience would be a great thing to master when you are young. Then we had an activity that demonstrated the need for patience…it was a Fruit Loop Stacking contest.
Navy is naturally patient and did really well in the challenge.
Scout, who is a bit impatient in life, saw that patience is worth striving for.
And the winner of them all exclaimed, “Slow and steady wins the race!”
How classic are boys. Dash (who has followed Scout’s example), just pulls up his buttoned-up shorts over his underwear, creating quite the traffic jam. And the funniest part is, Dash never fixes his underwear (not Scout’s example) to sit properly under his shorts. I’ve fixed it a few times for him, but now I tell him to unbutton his shorts, or fix his underwear. He replies with “Uh…Who Cares!”
I guess I don’t if he doesn’t?!?
I always pride myself on having kids who aren’t high maintenance…but should I be proud of this nonsense?
If before children, I had made a list of the things I want my kids to do/become, I would have put “good readers” right behind good, kind and capable. I was never a big reader, but my mom is…and I think it is one of the greatest things you can do for your life. Scout has become quite a good reader, and he enjoys it. Navy is coming up in the ranks pretty quickly.
And recently, Dash has become a lover of reading!!!
He is so talented at it, and I bow down to Nonnie for taking her time to instill this love into him.
Now guess who is starting to pick up books!
For now, Pippi likes to look at the pictures…but I hope that translates to loving the words just as much!
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Kids…keep reading.
And if you do, I promise to buy you any book you will read from cover to cover.
But NEVER…I repeat NEVER will I send you with money ever again to the book fair, so you can come home with lame posters and erasers!
I love that whenever I show up to one kid’s school, with another kid who doesn’t go there…they reunite like they haven’t seen each other in years!
Such was the case today, when I took Pippi to Bergeson with me.
When Scout spotted us, he was so excited to see her!
He hung out with her, and made her go to recess with him.
And on our way out, Dash spotted us, and hugged his long lost sister through the fence!
It’s moments like these, that really remind me that my kids adore each other. It’s times like two hours before this, that remind me that I actually stand as the family policeman at all times.
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