How to get your child tired in 538 easy steps....

Today I got be a chaperon on  Buddy's field trip to go see a Korean Cinderella Story. After the play, the kids went to a huge wooden park for a picnic and to have THE LONGEST RECESS EVER!!!  I took a picture to commemorate the event, but it's in cyberspace somewhere and I can't find it.....oh well. Buddy would only sit beside me for approximately 2 seconds for me to take the picture, then he hightailed it back to his teacher. I knew Buddy loved his teacher, but apparently ALL the kids absolutely love the teacher and they didn't let him have a moment of piece the whole time! In other news, I checked Buddy out of school right after the field trip and decided the 2 hours at the park running around just wasn't long enough....

I'm thinking of possibly installing a Buddy sized hamster wheel at our house! So all in all a super fantastic, running around day!

It's my birthday.....

It's my birthday.....so I woke up with expectations that the world would be at my beck and call, because the world revolves around me and all. About 5 minutes after I woke up, I remembered, I'm a mother, there is no world around me, just a world around him...

This was yesterday, when he was being cute and funny! This morning, not so much! He woke up from a nightmare that apparently involved me "forcing" him onto a dangerous roller coaster that had grizzly bears at the bottom of it! Seriously, if looks could kill, I would have been dead....several times over! Talk about taking away a birthday buzz! We eventually made our way to school (late of course) and then I handed him over to his teacher. When I checked in on him at lunch time, his teacher was super nice and said that as soon as I left Buddy was OK. Apparently his teacher has been taking some sort of  counseling classes and told me what I wanted to hear, but according to the Budster, part of the morning was spent crying under his desk with another part outside talking to Mr. Hartman (his teacher) about his nightmares. Oh well, by lunchtime he looked like this...

You know the world is good again when the bunny ears are out. Next birthday I'll be sure to not force Buddy onto the Bear Roller Coaster of Death. In other news, the birthday wasn't a total wash because some of my friends took me out for dessert tonight. Well, that is, after Shane made me a gourmet meal of bean and cheese burritos. Here I thought my birthday was just another day! So all in all a super fantastic, not riding roller coasters for a while, day!

Super Powers.....

Today I donated blood....

Which is not really a big deal, but I took a picture just for Shane. I was going to post the picture on Facebook to gross Shane out, but then thought better of it for the safety of his passengers! I showed him the picture when he got home and he refused to actually look at it! What a baby!!!!! Speaking of babies, mine adorned himself like this today....

Then shoved himself into this today....

Then joined silly forces today....

I'd say a day well done! So all in all a super fantastic day!

Incognito....

Ever have a kid too sick to go to school, but had some errands to run and didn't want truant officers tracking you down? We have the solution for you....

Buddy totally lucked out with being sick today of all days. I had to go to Hilo for some official Cub Scout business and Hilo actually has stores.......stores that carry things other than basic necessities.....it was awesome! We even took in a movie (pretty sure I don't have this mothering thing down quite yet, since I remember not being allowed to do anything on a sick day). Oh well, Buddy needed a new pair of glasses anyway, and here we've got two, what a bonus! So all in all a super fantastically, snotty, day!

And so it begins....

This morning I woke up WAAAAAYYYYY too early to find Buddy hard at work doing this.....

That's him tacking up a pillow case full of knick knacks set to explode on Shane's head when he walked out of the bedroom (compliments of Goodboy of course)! Buddy decided Goodboy probably needed a little dose of religion after that and took him to church with us....

Or, Buddy decided he wanted a good distraction at church and took him to church with us(I'll go with option #2), although we can hold our breath that Goodboy's pranks are going to get nicer over the next little bit! So all in all a super fantastic, totally over it, day!

My 6,985,098,847th parenting mistake....

Buddy played his last soccer game of the season this afternoon, and we are a little bit exhausted! When we got home our house turned into an airplane hanger....

I'm pretty sure Buddy has made over 500 airplanes over the last 2 days. I'm also pretty sure Buddy is a hoarder and has only let me throw away 2 of the aforementioned airplanes! In other news, somehow the topic of Christmas came up, which led to talking about Santa and Goodboy the elf! Buddy told me he was 100% certain that they weren't real. For an hour he searched the house for Goodboy to prove to me that I was the one behind it all. Finally I confessed. Remember what happened with the tooth fairy? Let me refresh your memory (click on the word memory dad, it'll take you to the link). Well, you would think that I would have learned my lesson last time. Shane was sure to rub salt in my wounds on that one. But seriously, he's 9, I thought he really knew and he was just looking for validation. He told me he was really sad to be losing Goodboy. Good thing I put on my rebound parenting pants, because the family is now taking turns of pulling Goodboy pranks on the rest of the family! Guess who wanted to take the first turn....

I'm slightly afraid...

So all in all a super  (I'd like to say fantastic, but based on the tears shed today I'll defer that), growing day!

The Big Top...

I have very fond memories of my dad taking me to the circus every year when I was a kid, so of course when I saw a circus was finally headed our way, I just had to by tickets! In my 41 years of attending a circus, this is the first time I've actually been in a tent to see one....

Added bonus, our seats were this close (that'd be THE VERY FRONT ROW)....

Extra bonuses, our neighbors that we love to hang out with happened to be sitting right behind us, and the announcer guy got so close to me I actually got spit on a few times (wait, were the bonuses supposed to be good or bad, because that last one is a little iffy?)! Buddy was astounded and amazed....especially by these two guys that are 10 and 11 and did some awesome acrobatic tricks....

Buddy went up to them to tell them they did a good job and gave them a thumbs up, which kind of makes me giggle (not sure why, maybe because I'm tired, or maybe I equate it with telling someone like Brad Pitt he's a good actor and giving him a thumbs up, but then again maybe Brad would appreciate that?!).  Also, there was this....

Which reminds me, I had a parent-teacher conference with his teacher this afternoon. Turns out he thinks Buddy is smart, weird and funny....who knew he was smart? Just kidding!!!!! So all in all a super fantastic, joining the circus, day!