Bad mommy to the rescue...

Buddy finished his homework early today and it was a beautiful day outside (who am I kidding, we live in Hawaii, every day is a beautiful day). When I asked Buddy what he wanted to do, he wanted to play in his room with his stuffed animals....is it awkward that I insisted he go to the playground to do this instead....

Hey, you can play with stuffed animals anytime, it's not everyday that your mom encourages rock slinging at the playground, well, unless I'm your mom! It's never too early to hone in on your slingshot hunting skills, you never know when you're going to need some fresh meat! Maybe tomorrow we'll work on our sword throwing abilities. In other news, Shane and I both had school lunch with Buddy. Let's just say that Buddy was on cloud 9 and several of the kids invited Shane over for a playdate (hey, wouldn't you want a helicopter pilot to come and play at your house?). So all in all a super fantastic, aiming high, day!

Texas?

You know, I hear things grow bigger in Texas. But I'm pretty sure we moved to Hawaii and not Texas, which leaves me to question what we're feeding this kid to grow these...

Hmmm, we must be eating some seriously hormone fed beef by the looks of that last picture! In other news, I went to lunch with Buddy at school, and he has requested lunch dates for the remainder of the week. Good thing he's got me twisted around his little pinkie, that and I'm a sucker for school lunches! So all in all a super fantastic, growing ridiculously big, day!

Renegades...

Buddy had a friend come over after I got home from work, pretty sure she didn't have gun shooting on her list of things to do today....

Of course I'm pretty sure neither one of them had throwing sticks in the yard on the agenda either, or maybe they did and I just don't know a good thing when I see it! I guess I'm just getting boring in my old age (at least I'm not as old as Shane, errr, strike that last remark). In other news, we've been reading the Spiderwick Chronicles before bed every night and totally loving it (who knew faeries could be so awesomely scary and mean, now that's my kind of fairy(well, really Buddy's, but I'll pretend)). So all in all a super fantastic, growing up too fast, day!

Rubbing off...

I'm not sure who is rubbing off on who, but I sure do like the end result!

So all in all a super fantastic, Happy Birthday Shane, day!

There's always time for....

Not sure what was wrong with my boy this morning. When I took him to a pool party, he whined and said he didn't want to swim...so we left (actually I didn't even take swimming suits he was acting so weird about it). While we were leaving though, across the street were some of his school friends calling for him to come play with them. It was magical how the whining immediately stopped and he could join the battle ranks like nothing ever happened...

Who knew that guns were so curative, well, other than perhaps the NRA! So all in all a super fantastic, playing with guns (again), day! P.S. We did a lot more than play with guns today, I just didn't take any pictures of it...Wouldn't want you to think my 7 year old is gun obsessed (that would be bad parenting).....errr, yeah, not gun obsessed perhaps a better word would be concentrated!

Racial tensions?

Today I took Buddy and his friend from next door to go to a Chinese New Year's Celebration! After all that awesome drum thumping and fantastic dancing (with dragons even), do you think it's too late for Buddy to be Chinese? Seriously, it was awesome, and he couldn't get enough of it. He ran into some friends from school and they chased the dragons everywhere....or were the dragons chasing them? It was really hard to tell. Anyway, with all the acrobatic/ninja like moves, serious dance moves and constant drum beats, I'm just wondering if it'll look weird next year when one of the dragons is being piloted by a blond haired, blue-eye'd boy? Hope not, cause we're in!

Seriously, I think this one is adorable, he's just showing the love to his posse'...

To think that this morning the most exciting thing on our to do list was this...

So all in all a super fantastic, dancing our dragon tails off, day!

Promise fulfilled...

Yesterday Shane fulfilled his promise to Buddy about going on the roof, I got a get out of going on the roof pass by default of illness. Needless to say the boy was more than ecstatic....

He does really seem on top of the world doesn't he?

I sure do love that little guy! So all in all a super fantastic, loving life, day!