Snippets from this evening
I’m feeling low energy, so turning to the cute kid story category for an easy post:
- When I got in this evening, the boys were running around with blankets over their heads and crashing into things and saying "who turned out the lights?" D. thought it was absolutely hysterical when we found in the Ranger Rick he brought home from school a picture of a squirrel with its head in a peanut butter jar. The caption, of course, was "who turned out the lights?"
- I went up to my bedroom to change into jeans. I was hoping to maybe sneak in 2 minutes of checking my messages, but N followed me upstairs, saying "I keep you company, mommy." When I had the nerve to shut the bathroom door on him, he protested "I need to keep you company." I told him "I want my privacy." "Are you using the potty, mommy?"
- When N finished eating, he was playing around with what happened to his plate when he put it on top of the tines of the fork and pushed down on the handle. "No catapults at the table," I told him. "Oh, wight, I fowgot, no cataputs at the table. At dinner," he responded.
- For my birthday, D gave me Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and we’ve been reading it out loud. It’s a near-perfect read-aloud book — short chapters, each of which end on a cliffhanger.
- In D’s folder, we received notice of an "honors ceremony" tomorrow morning. It’s possible that this notice was sent home on Friday, since D was out sick then, but we didn’t get it until today. For K-2, it’s from 8.30 to 9.15, which is right when N needs to be dropped off at preschool. I can go into work an hour late, so I’ll show the flag, but I’m still a bit irritated.
