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A mischievous tale from the #landofcute
Marcus: Mommy, can I eat this flower blossom?
I looked over to where he is pointing, he had spotted chive flowers.
“Well Marcus, you can, but it will give you incredible flatulence”
His eyes lit up and a slow smile started in the corner of his mouth. I was starting to know this look of late….mischeviousness! The thought that a plant could cause farts was too much fun to avoid. Down the hatch before I could give a second warning. Besides the fact that my son thought this was hilarious (as did I, but I did not let on) We were on our way into a shiva house with my son reeking of onions. He was not bothered by the piece of fruit cake I brought him to mask his pungent scent.
Addendum: Gastrointestinally speaking, nothing unusual happened. B
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An omnipotent tale from the #landofcute
Marcus: I know God’s real name!
Mommy: Really?
With great confidence he declares
Yeah, it’s Bob Jeffery Stefan. But he goes by Bob for short.
I just smile, knowing the days are numbered for these sweet silly thoughts shared aloud.
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A “weighted” tale from the #landofcute
So, here we are up at the cottage. Marcus and I are snuggled together in a chair. It is so unbearably cozy I start to get a bit chocked up. As we were enjoying our movie Marcus gently and unconsciously began to stroke my hair. It was so sweet. Out of no where he says.
“Mommy you look fabulous, even though you are chubby!”
I totally love the feeling of being gobsmacked. I could see from his face that he totally meant it as a compliment, so I took it as one. Let’s be honest here, I am pretty damn fabulous.
Marcus: Mommy can we go to an orphranage?
Mommy:a what?
Marcus: An orphranage so that I can get a little sister?
Mommy and Daddy feeling so sad and full of love for him at the exact same time.
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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.
For those of you who do not know, Marcus has his future life planned out. Today he made a new edition to the story. This is how the story goes.
Part 1 – about a year ago
“Mommy, I am going to have 10 kids!”
“Really? That’s cool. Hey, all of those kids need to eat. How are you going to feed them?”
“You are going to open up a bakery and you can feed us, and the warmth of the oven can keep us warm in the winter”
I was actually kind of impressed by this answer for a 6 year old.
Part 2 – 6 months ago
“So, are you going to have a job?”
“Yes, I am going to be an inventor like my dad” Heart melts
Part 3 – Today’s contribution to the story, which is kind of my favorite part……The first four kids are going to be named Eenie, Meenie, Miny and Moe. I burst out laughing and then he says and the next two are going to be named Michael and Jeff. I love that he doesn’t think about gender. I do feel bad for Meenie though, that is a tough handle to grow up with.
