kids do the darn-dest things

On Saturday, I assigned Jared to pull out the flowers in the front flower bed and the kidney. I told him to pull the petunias and the marigolds. Then I specifically pointed to one of the perennials in the kidney and told him not to pull it and the other big perennials. So -- what did he do? He pulled EVERYTHING, including all the perennials, EXCEPT for the one little measly perennial I had pointed to!! Arghh! At that point, I sent him back to finish the job and pull the one little measly perennial he had left. I guess we'll start from scratch next spring!



Ryan brought home a note from school on Monday from the teacher, saying that he had not completed any work that day! Of course the note was stapled to all the work that he had to finish. One of the assignments was to simply finish coloring in a map of Europe -- this would seriously take him all of 3 minutes to finish. So he got out his box of 64 crayons -- the state crayons (every color is named after a state) He spent about 15 minutes going through the box and reading the names on the crayons before he happened upon the Puerto Rico one and said, "Hey -- what's Puerto Rico doing in here? It's not a state!" The kid is so NOT dumb -- but it sure takes forever to get homework done!



Jacob was getting ready for school yesterday and I told him to get his socks and shoes on. He obediently put his socks on and put on one sandal and one sneaker, then declared -- "I'm ready to go, Mom!" I guess I need to be a little more specific next time.



Matthew is almost crawling -- good grief! He's up on his knees and his arms are straight and he pushes forward. Fortunately, he's not coordinated enough yet to really take off. He's growing up so fast!