Twin Tigers

Buddy and his best friend after school today

School Days...

School is cool when you come home looking like this...

Maybe we should go to school every day? And no worries, he's not mad, he's posing as an angry snake, which is what he asked his teacher to paint on him! He's bound for theatrics that boy!
All in all , a super fantastic, really need a nap and it's only 3pm kind of day!

Enough is enough?...

So the cousins are still in town and Buddy has not wanted to leave their sides for a second. He has spent the last 3 nights with them and he has even gone to go hang out with my sister's in-laws, which have kindly dubbed him their honorary cousin. So here's to good times, and good cousins that we wished lived closer...

All in all a super fantastic, you can never have too many cousins, day!!!

Credit where credit's due....

So I must admit I have a very big flaw, I am not a very good teacher.  I think it all started when my sister who is two years older than me started reading slower than me (which actually happened when I was in kindergarten). Don't get me wrong, I love my sister, but she knows better than to read aloud in front of me, I will step in  with my amazing reading abilities and say the words she pauses or fumbles on without hesitation. I guess it's OK when it's just you and your sister who at times makes fun of you, calls you fat, and at times thrown a sucker punch your way (she used to anyway, she hasn't done any of those things in at least  25 years) , not so OK when you have a 5 year old reading up a storm. So reading duty has fallen onto daddy's hands, I will sit and listen, but I keep my mouth closed. Surprisingly Shane is a natural teacher, which I always thought he was, but to that I give him a super kudos. He may not know where places are located on a map, but that's what google is for right? Besides, if you can read, you can do anything. So for now, my sweet little boy has started into the level 2 reading books and doing an amazing job!

In other news my sister is in town, she still loves me regardless of my flaws, and Buddy has had a wonderful day playing with his 7 cousins that totally cater to his every whim. Of course at the end of the day we've had to wash the stink off of him from the over exuberance of playing!

So now we are getting  ready to hit the sack after someone not sleeping well for 2 days in anticipation of the cousins arrival. And I have been lucky enough to have been placed on call tonight. All I have to say is super yipee, and I think that I have been home on call more than working lately and I like it.( Sometimes I like to pretend I'm a stay at home mom and live in a fantasy world). It's great!
So all in all a super fantastic play day!!!

And so it continues....

Making a contraption...

Buddy is always, like I'm sure most other boys, wanting to make a "contraption". Thank goodness for my parents and my mothers plethora of "junk" to make contraptions out of. Also thank goodness for their new ant infestation, which led Buddy to be the brain child of the Worlds first (at least in our special world) ant blower. You see, my parents have been instructed by Buddy to not kill the ants, they have been told they are his friends (poor kid needs siblings) and I have even picked him up from a day of hanging out with the grandparent's with an ant crossing sign up in the kitchen. Gross, yet true. So here is to my little genius, and his work of art....

And in case you wanted to know, this guy is 81 pancakes high. Didn't you hear that America is attempting to convert from the metric to pancake system? Sadly, I think more Americans would actually relate. Hmmmm.

In other news, my parents house has also been invaded by mice....

But no worries, we have been informed that these mice just want an education, seriously, where do kids come up with this stuff! So all in all a super fantastic, working on getting over our colds kind of day. 
Over and out, we've got our good eye on you!

By the way if you were wondering, my parents do try to get rid of the ants, just not when the King of the Ants is around!

Bedtime....

So Buddy is getting better and better at reading. Our ritual includes us reading him a book, followed by him reading a book to us. Works great, he lays in bed and then 2 hours later he's still doing a little bit of this...

OK, maybe it's not so great. Not that I don't absolutely love that he's reading, but the boy is reading in bed until 11 pm, and I have to go to the library 2 times a week to refill our bag with new books, because heaven forbid you read the same book twice. At this rate we'll have read all the books in our local library by years end. The only drawback to this arrangement is waking him up for school in the morning. He's actually been doing great this week (OK it's only been 3 days), and there is a new girl in his class from Hawaii. We frequently talk about Hawaii  here, we all dream of living there some day, so he was so excited that he met someone who has lived there. Although, we don't know too much about her, Buddy said he was too shy to talk, somehow I'm not quite believing that story. There isn't a shy bone in that boy's body (definitely didn't get that from his mommy).
So all in all it's been a super fantastic reading kind of day!