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A muttering story from the #landofcute

As most of you know, I am homeschooling Marcus. One of the activities I have introduced into our day is house keeping. I have to muster steely nerves on the inside, and a gentle demeanor on the outside. The task was wash two pots, rinse, dry and put them away. The idea is that he has to do everything. Can’t reach the sink? I guess you need a stool…..go get your stool.
So, he is now ready to wash the pots. Scrubby in one hand and he looks at me to turn the water on. I wait for him to turn the water on…I am prepared for anything…
Is muttering under your breath for the first time a milestone? Cause if it is, we definitely hit that one yesterday!
Muttering under his breath I heard him say
“Do I have to do everything around here?” OMG I was not prepared for that. I almost burst out laughing. I had to remain calm. My cheeks were hurting from suppressing laughter….It continued for the whole task, my ears pricked to hear his mutterings.
“Why do I have to do this? This is SO boring! When I become a man I am going to have a house maid come and do my dishes.” on and on for about 4 minutes.
I was bracing myself, what I would do if he asked for some applause when he was done? Once the door to the cupboard was shut, he just turned around and said
“Hey Mommy, do you want to play Lego with me?” As if the last 4 minutes didn’t happen. I wish I was 7.

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A game making story from the #landofcute

Some of you may know that I am homeschooling Marcus. Today we were doing a lesson from my favorite book “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” when Marcus started asking me how to spell things totally unrelated to our lesson. I soon realized that he was feeling pretty determined to take over today’s class, so, I said “what should we do?”
“I know. Let’s play eye spy with something in this room. So, for instance, for the carpet I would say “I spy with my little eye something that begins with c-a, and then you have to guess what it is and then we spell it.” We were at it for 35 minutes totally engaged. He and I are just amazed at how silly English can be. Words like light are the silliest, what is up Mommy with”ight”? He also did a tiny drawing of each word he learned. This is what he learned to spell today.

Bat Man
Light bulb
Heater
Mother
Towel
Phone
Carpet
Bed
Paper
Boxes

Feeling kind of awed. Now he is making Lego droids. Gary and Bill Nye the Science guy are going to introduce Marcus to nutrition today for science class.

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An enebriated tale from the #landofcute

Mommy “Wow, Marcus there is a woman out jogging on the coldest day of the year!”
Marcus “She must be drunk!”