Landscaping...

Nothing spruces up a yard like balloons do....

 Well, balloons and glow sticks....

Well, balloons, glow sticks and 3 goofy kids....
So all in all a super fantastic, spruced up, day!

Get it while you can....

Today Buddy took the Hawaii Standardized test for reading. Guess who got the top score for all of third grade.....

His teacher even said he'd never seen a score as high as his (of course I think his teacher has only been a teacher for 2 years, but we can pretend Buddy is a genius)! All the kids were bragging on him on the way out of school, and of course Buddy was grinning from ear to ear and telling his score to anyone that would listen (or basically anyone with in a 2 mile hearing distance).  I'll brag about this now, because I know next week is the math test....pretty certain you won't be hearing a peep from me! So all in all a super fantastic, reading like a super champ, day!

Chess King....

I bought Buddy a chess set for his birthday...

Which may explain why he likes playing the game in his birthday suit? Well, at least it's combining two things he loves (playing chess and being naked)!  So all in all a super fantastic, check mate, day!

Waiky 500.....

Today I took  Buddy and a friend to the skate park. Unfortunately the skate park was overrun with not only teenagers......but SKATEBOARDS (the horror). The boys didn't seem to mind a little detour into uncharted territory....

See, I told you they didn't mind! Two hours of this.....

Even I was hooked! So all in all a super fantastic, good thing Buddy is a pack horse to lug that thing up and down the hill a million times, day!

Card carrying member....

A few days ago Buddy copycatted from his BFF a book of rules for his room....

I'm not sure how much foot traffic he thinks he gets down his end of the hall, but at least he's wishing us to have a nice day. That almost makes up for the fact that he's growing up way too fast and wanting his privacy. For posterity I've documented the whole darn thing....

He even set up a "key pad" for entry into his room...

Today his safeguards were put to the test when we had a party for one of my co-workers that decided she needed to leave Paradise and go to Poo-tah!

Two of his friends were there, and to make sure they had easier room access than the other riff-raff milling around (think lots of girls and lots of toddler boys) he had me make them access cards....

Buddy came up with the idea and designed them himself! 10 points for creativity, minus 15 points for thinking a 2 year old could read or even follow the directions! Oh well, so all in all a super fantastic, accessible, day!

Cully....

I just have to toot our cul de sac's horn (wait, do cul de sac's even have horns?). Since it was a non-windy day around these parts (a rarity I assure you), Buddy got to finally play with the airplane he bought with his birthday money....

Of course after shimmying up two coconut trees and digging through a poky bush to retrieve said tree I put the kibosh on the plane flying and the locals (also known as the kids on our street) turned out to do a little of this....

Even the dog showed up...

So all in all a super fantastic, taking the neighbors with us if we ever move, day!

Weathered.....

It was really cold yesterday morning, so instead of wearing pants and a jacket like a normal person would to keep warm at school, Buddy decided this was the most appropriate attire....

The ears flop when you walk, otherwise they'd just be a pair of lame ole' slippers and wearing them to school would be embarrassing....the ear flopping takes it to a whole other level of non-embarrassing AWESOME!!!!! You know what else is awesome? I got to fill in for Buddy's den leader today at Cub Scouts and then watch some cute boys do this....

That would be the boys raising and lowering the flag on a genuine flag pole! The book only said they needed to be present for a flag raising and lowering ceremony, but who wants to do that one time when you can do it 18 times so everyone gets a chance? So all in all a super fantastic, flag folding and flag raising, day!