We are rich!

 Carter convinced me to buy the 64 pack of crayons this year for school. He asked me for a crayon pack with a sharpener, he went to an employee and asked which ones had a sharpener, and he tracked them down. It was only $2 more than the 24 pack and I had spent a lot of time gathering what we still had from last year, and shopping the best sales, so I figured why not.

I remember my parents refusing to buy the 64 pack. They were more expensive than the 24 pack.

So, here we are buying something I thought only rich people could afford. 

Growing up

This boy is growing up SO fast. He is only 8, but he is already bragging about arm pit stench and hair growing where it has never grown.

This morning, he set an alarm for himself, got up, brushed his teeth, dressed, ate breakfast, and packed his lunch (albeit a can of orange soda and a popsicle in a gallon Ziploc bag with ice packs) all on his own in preparation for cub scout camp.

Where did the time go?

Time Out Anthem

Today, Beckett and Roslyn got into a fight. Music was playing, and they got into an argument over the song. Roslyn wanted the next song, and Beckett wanted to keep listening. She skipped the song, and a fight ensued. Someone unplugged it and hid it. Then, there was name calling, and finally crying. It happened so fast, I wasn’t able to step in until the crying part. Beckett went to time-out because he used potty words in his name calling.

He thought he was in time-out for unplugging and hiding the music. The two of them were yelling back and forth about who did it. I tried to separate them and explain why he was in time-out again. They yelled over me.

Beckett then began to sing loudly, the 2^nd Article of Faith for our church:

“We believe that man will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam’s transgressions.”

Beckett knows what it means, because we have discussed it as a family – but he does not know what all the words are. Unfortunately, it comes out:

“We believe that man will be punished for their own sins and not for auto transmissions.”

I tried to get a video, but it didn’t work with all the screaming.

Music

Beckett is very musical. He has a knack for tune and can memorize a song very quickly. I heard him in the back yard today singing and had to go out and watch. I convinced him to do a reenactment for me so you all could see. He had to yell because I couldn't hear him well:

 

He is modeling a video we watched recently. I said he was in the same place they were and he moved the same times the other kids did. He might be a dancer some day…