Early Riser....

This morning Buddy woke up way too early and decided it was time to finish constructing this....

The catapults are so awesome, that I even have one so we can have a war, which is exactly what we did as soon as he got home from school! Homework, shomework. Who needs to study in a classroom, after all, isn't the world suppose to be your classroom? Better yet, isn't the art of warring with your mother the top requirement to get into an Ivy League school? I thought so.... time well spent. So all in all a super fantastic, if every morning were this easy life would be grand, day!

Lessons....

Buddy officially started taking semi-private tennis lessons. He also went to school, went to cub scouts and built a catapult....pretty impressive for a 7 year old I think! I just won't tell him his mama dresses him funny (let's keep it our little secret)! So all in all a super fantastic, professionally awesome, day!

Like mother like son?

Today at soccer practice, the boys were scrimmaging and one of the boys got the wind knocked out of him. The boy sat on the sidelines and started to cry, I tried to comfort him since his mom wasn't there. Then, when practice was over and they were doing their huddle, Buddy scooted right up next to him and did this....

Which was the exact same back rub/consoling maneuver I was practicing just minutes before. Hmmmm, gee, I wonder where Buddy learned it? In other news, Buddy has two new friends, one was part of a science experiment and must have put the disguise on to sneak out of more experimentation at the hands of 25  mad scientists parading around as second graders...

The other, hopefully, will be consumed at lunch tomorrow, even if he is disguised as Sponge Bob Square Pants!

It's amazing how a few markers can give you a case of the giggles! So all in all a super fantastic, friendly, day!

Special?

For a long time I've regarding Buddy as being a "special spirit", I believe this picture may just prove it....

In other news, his "Annoying Orange" returned home in his lunch box with cracks in it from all the kids throwing it around. You would think I would have learned my lesson from last week where I decorated bananas for the whole week and every single one returned home battered and bruised....but with a fantastic story. I guess I'm just special too. Today we also went across the street while the neighbors were gone to pretend like we owned a dog for a while....

Buddy sat loving on Max while I tried to impress Buddy with my awesome bike tricks (he wasn't very impressed). Then we came home and played with Buddy's favorite playmates...

Buddy used to play with this band of ruffians pretty frequently, now he's growing up and playing with them less and less. Today he even locked his dad out of his room while we were playing, saying that he was embarrassed! Seriously, you can never be embarrassed by a group of hooligans that have awesome names like Grandpa Grumpy Pants, Mr Harry Butts and southern twangers Daisy Mae and Billy Bob, or can you? Next thing you know, Buddy will stick them all in a Lego house to die from toxic poisoning complements of Mr. Harry Butts explosive diarrhea problem!

Whoops, too late, thank goodness Buddy is fully certified to resuscitate plastic dolls! I'm so proud of my boy. So all in all a super fantastic, celebrating our awesomely special sides, day!

Television brain suckers.....

After a week of me decorating Buddy's school lunch bananas in anything funny I could think of, he had a special request from his classmates....

That's Annoying Orange, he has his own cartoon show  (at least I think he does, that's what the Internet says anyway). It seems like the kids are watching too much TV these days because when I started teaching my Primary class today, they couldn't stop talking about how much I look like the mom from "Good Luck Charlie"...

She happens to be a nurse too(on TV which isn't as awesome as real life, but that's just me), the kids were convinced I'm leading a double life! In other news, my Primary class has never been more attentive. So all in all a super fantastic, needing to unplug, day!

Corporal punishment...

I sent Buddy to his room to go make his bed this morning, after a few minutes I heard some giggling and a "mom come see this"....

I asked him what was going through that crazy little brain of his and he told me that it was a reenactment of me and my sister "getting spanked by Papaw". I giggled and then told him if he wanted his reenactment to be correct, the dolls should have been touching their toes. Trust me, if you didn't want your spankings again, the hands always stayed on the toes! I'm glad Buddy has a warped sense of humor at my expense! I've probably told him the story about a patient farting in my face while placing a difficult catheter a thousand times, he still gets a kick out of it like he's never heard it before and then asks me to tell that story(and more) when his friends are gathered round. Sick kid, glad I have such a good influence over him! So all in all a super fantastic, touch your toes, day!

Fine....

I do believe I'm doing a bang up job of mothering today. Buddy joined me with exercising while watching an episode of "The Biggest Loser", then I told him he could stay up and watch a show about military weapons if he'd let me take a picture of him wearing this....

He was more than willing to comply and then proceeded to tell me I could take all the pictures I wanted. Hmmmm, I think I settled my deal too low....stinkin' kid! In other news, our house has had an explosion of Halloween awesomeness, I'm just not sure why it took us so long to bust the decorations, but it's all about the quantity not quality.....errrrrm! Now if our costumes that I preordered back in July would get here we'd be set (don't judge me, Halloween is the highlight of our year)! So all in all a super fantastic, maybe I'll do better tomorrow, day!