Jr is our funny man. At least he thinks he is. DP is the straight man, and Jr is the comedian. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Before Christmas, we were all watching Lu in her Christmas play. Did I mention, she is always in a play or a singing performance? Any way this was our second time watching this play. It was a really good play although it had a little length to it. The four of us watched the play and really enjoyed it. However, Jr must have been ready to leave, because as soon as the lights come on he jumps up and says "We out of here playa!". Since we have to wait on the talented actor and give her a ride home too, I say "sit down, and who are you calling playa?". Jr takes his seat and acts like nothing happened and like I didn't ask him a question. Oh well, that is all I have for you today, so I'm out of here, Playas.
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The 4th grade spelling bee started up last week. Apparently, the teachers sent home a list of words over the holidays. DP failed to let us know this so we misplaced them. The night before school started back last week, DP says he didn't want to do the spelling bee but had to. Therefore, I told him "since you have to do it, you might as well do your best". Now if you know any gifted kids, you know that isn't as trivial of a statement as it sounds. Now DP is upset that we don't have the words that were sent home. So SuperMom looks up some Scripps words and calls them out for him. I hear her and am thinking, "those are some hard words for a fourth grader". Then SuperMom realizes she was calling out the list for 2nd graders. Did I feel dumb? Oh well, she calls out about 10 of the 4th grade words and tells DP he is good. The next day is the test and when DP gets home we ask him how did he do. To SuperMom's surprise but not mine, he says "I won". That isn't the best part though. He then begins to tell us about how him and the runner-up were giving words to study for this week. Why the runner-up we ask? That is in case I don't want to do it. To this, SuperMom asks "do you want to do it", knowing he didn't want to do the first one. His reply, "yeah, I want to win now." That too isn't the best part of the conversation. The best part is when he was explaining how the spelling bee went. He said that they were giving name tags before it started. DP wrote his name, but one girl wrote her name with a nickname following it. Like Betty the Great. DP says, this girl Mary wrote Mary the Awesome on her name tag. He then states, "I knew I didn't have to worry about her because she spelled awesome wrong and wrote Mary the awsome". SuperMom asked if he told her, and he states "nah she already started her spelling bee off bad". He was right, he didn't have to worry about Mary. Jr. never stops amazing me. He is very entertaining and very much the skeemer. The other day, Jr climbed up next to SuperMom and was acting very lovey. He was talking to her about different things and being overall sweet. He brought up the fact that some kids' Moms read them books at night and that SuperMom used to read to him. She asked did he like this, to which he replied yes. Furthermore, he stated he wished she would go back to reading to him. Finally, he said he even had a book for her to read. It was the first book in the Harry Potter series. Fair enough, nothing too unusual about this. SuperMom agreed. Finally, Jr said, that with her reading to him, he will be able to take the Accelerated Reader (AR) test for the book in no time. In case you don't know, that is a test you take after YOU, the student, finish reading a book. Each book has a different value based on the level of the book. Harry Potter is a long chapter book and thus will get him the most points. He always has a plan and tries to take the easiest route. As a famous coach once said, "if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying". |
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