So what’s been going on around here lately? Well, besides all of us doing multiple daily shots of penicillin, we’ve been all over the napping and kleenex scenes. Because that’s just how we roll.
My daughter has recently become obsessed with the idea of having long hair and can frequently be found with her head tilted back at an impossible angle, trying to create the feeling of locks that reach down her back. The problem is, what she is imagining is this:
But what she’ll likely end up with, if she grows it out, will be more like this:
The reason I know this is because her hair is just like mine and as much as I’ve always wanted thick, long, supermodel hair, wishing just doesn’t make it so. However, I understand that it will likely take experience with thin and stringy long hair before she is actually ready to accept this fact, so I’m trying to prepare myself for dealing with the funny-looking hair for a few years if she really does follow through with this.
She has also decided that it’s well past time for her 5 and a half year old self to be shedding her baby teeth. She has been walking around wiggling them so vigourously that if they weren’t loose before, they WILL BE SOON. What she will do when she has a mouthful of loose teeth from constant wiggling, or NO TEETH when they all fall out, I don’t know!
Also, my son woke up from his nap today wearing his socks on his hands like mittens. He’s done it a couple of times before and I suspect he put them on his hands before falling asleep and it’s just all kinds of adorable. I suspect it will be less so if he does it when he becomes a bigger and smellier boy with much stinkier socks.
On the home front, there is enough sludge growing in my toilets to execute a hostile takeover of our home and enough dustbunnies in the corners to eat the children. The result of several weeks of sickness. I plan to give my husband clean toilets for Valentine’s Day because I’m romantic that way.
And now, a short rant: Avery’s class has a strict no-food party policy. We are not allowed to send in treats for birthdays or holidays. Some people feel this is excessive but frankly, I find it refreshing. It takes off a lot of pressure for parents and especially for those in the class who maybe can’t afford to bring in treats. Also our kids don’t get pumped full of sugar on a weekly basis at school. But apparently Valentine’s Day doesn’t qualify because despite the rule, Avery came home with a veritable bucket full of chocolate and candy received from classmates for V-Day. I guess the rule-follower in me just can’t handle the mass mutiny against the kindergarten rule of law. Also, is it really a common practice for people to buy gifts for teachers on Valentine’s Day? Because I love teachers as much as the next parent, hell, both my parents are teachers! But I’m just not willing to shell out the cash for gifts beyond Christmas and the end of the school year. Guess I’m just a cheap shmuck.
We are now coming to the end of our daily disjointed blog post. Please wait until the rambling has come to a full stop before exiting the blog. Have a nice day folks.
