Kindergarten Playday the Ace Edition

They didn't require as much herding as I thought they would, but sitting with a big group of Kindergarten boys at a picnic lunch can kinda make you loose your appetite. What with the arm farting, smooshed crust balls, "Hey, look what I'm eating!, and the burping...the burping is ridiculous!

I'm getting on the record first.

This is what happened.

After he got through fighting with his sister, he breezed through, on his way to the bathroom, where I knew he would be spending the next half hour, so I said,

"Tell me everything I need to know about "Oklahoma!"."

He stalks back in my direction and says,

"What."

"Tell me everything I need to know about "Oklahoma!" this week."

"LIKE WHAT?"

"Like, what time is the show? Tuesday? Thursday? How much are tickets? Where do I get them? We'd like to come to at least one of the shows."

"I don't know. Like seven or something. I don't know how much the tickets are. You have to get them from somebody in Drama or Choir."

"Do we know anybody in Drama or Choir?"

"No."

"You don't know anybody in Drama or Choir?"

"Well, Amanda and Jodi."

"Don't you have Jodi's number?"

"Well, yea."

So then he stalks off in the direction he started.

Cut to 5:00. I get up from watching Oprah to continue my laundry efforts. Some disturbing thing starts in on the news, so as he sits down on the couch I have him change it to some cartoon instead. After folding a load, delivering said load, putting a load in the dryer, another load into the washer I decide I can't take another moment of being in my sweaty black workout gear from this morning. I go to my room pick out some shorts and sundries and head for the shower. I step in the shower, get wet, reach out and put some soap in my hand, transfer the soap onto my wet head when someone pounds on the bathroom door. (Startling but never unexpected.)

"WHAT?"

"AAHH FLAA WAA TA FLAA 5:30!" (commence furious rinsing of the hair.)

"WHAT?"

"FLA TE FLA FLA FLA 5:30!"

"I'LL BE OUT IN JUST ONE SECOND"

You know what he said, don't you? "I need to leave for practice at 5:30"
You know what practice, don't you? "Oklahoma!" practice.

Band Awards

Yes, he's taller than me.


He's almost taller than his Dad.

He won one of four awards given for most improved woodwinds. When we got home, Melee' looked at the award and said "So you got the award for sucking less than you used to suck?"

That's what brother's are for, right? Always there to keep you humble.

Things they didn't tell you about having kids. #3452

That if you decide to have a couple of kids, and they turn out to be boys, you'll be living with these two guys for four or five years.

T minus Four Weeks and Counting...

School's out in four more weeks!! Yee-ha!

Melee' had a field trip to the water park yesterday, he has one more water park field trip and a field trip to the new Texas Stadium. What a life!

Peach had a field trip to the Alligator Park yesterday, and came back with all her digits.

Ace has a "Field Day" celebration at some point in the next few weeks. Kindergarten always gets the shaft.

The sixteen year old has a schedule like you wouldn't believe. His projects include a homemade kite, a Popsicle stick bridge, 75 lines of a poem memorized, a five chapter autobiography, he volunteered (was guilted) to play music in the High School production of Oklahoma, has a Sound Post recording and water park day, Spring Band Camp, a CT scan of his sinuses, Band Banquet, Band Bar-b-Que. A small price to pay for getting to go to Hawaii with his best friend in June.
Summer Band Camp starts August the 2nd, but right now I can't rule out the possibility that they might ask him to help with the incoming freshman, July 28th thru the 30th. Plus I've committed to homeschooling him for driver's ed. (Yeah, I know. I should be committed.)

Who said anything about a summer vacation?

Oh yea. We just started a new little project. Painting the ceilings white......