The Death of Me....

We all know Silas...we know he's rotten...we know he says whatever he thinks - which most 3 year olds do. The problem is: WHAT HE THINKS!

I get this email today from Kelly:

"has Silas been talking about seeing people naked lately? or some discussion about him seeing (or not seeing) people naked?...it's all he's talked about the last few days"

Well, I can tell you he isn't seeing much in the way of naked around here. And I'd imagine not at Kelly's. And he wouldn't see naked at my parents if his life depended on it...so...

me: "well, he has been asking a lot if (so and so) will laugh if they see him naked. but we haven't had any naked talks...or rather...talks about nakedness"

kelly: "he asked the same thing to (little girl S) - if you see me naked will you laugh?"

me: "maybe he's channeling Mason's thoughts?? seems much more like a 14 year old would think." UGH!!!!!

So, we did have the nakedness talk to Si when he got home. It's not polite to ask about nakedness, talk to anyone about nakedness, ask anyone if they want to get naked...ask if they want to see you naked. Nothing. No naked talk.

Okay. all is fine and dandy until after dinner. Then I take Mason's phone because he is slacking on this homework. I look to see that he's been on Myxer (is that bad?) and I see that some of the ring tone names are really raunchy.
"Mason I don't really want you on this site. The stuff is raunchy."
Mas: "huh, what, why not, what's bad??"

I read down a few of the songs: sex this, bonk that, Boats and Hoes, yada yada..

when up pipes Si: "Boats and Hoes mama, that rhymes - BOATS AND HOES RHYME!"

Well...
1. NO they don't rhyme
2. How can I discipline (him or Mas) when I'm laughing my butt off?
and
3. Is he going to go to school tomorrow saying that "boats and hoes" rhyme and talk about being naked? Can a 3 year old get kicked out of preschool??

'Tis the Season!

Autumn is my favorite time of year. I love the cooler weather, the smell of the leaves and the wonderful sleeping weather. I also love the ease of crock pot cooking and simmering pots of soup...

here is my first of the season...

'Tis also the Season for...

enjoying the cool air by an open window

...being silly and having fun with friends...

...wearing our Buckeye gear...

...and starting to think about costumes for Halloween...

(yeah, she hated me for this...)

Autumn is also the time of year that I love, love, love taking pictures....oranges, yellows, a bright blue sky and the light is beautiful....can't wait!!

Silas Says...

Si: Sometimes on Sundays we have ice cream for breakfast.

me: we do?

Si: yes

me: When have we done that?

Si: On Sundays.

FYI...

Blog design will be changing - stuff will be here one day and then not...and then back again.
I'm tired of dots!

A Very Unorganized Update

I am way, way overdue on the updating and if I wait around to organize it...it'll never happen. So in no particular order...here is the past week or so!

1. Margie's 9 months post-chemo scan results have come back NED :-) Yippee!! NED means No Evidence of DISEASE!

2. Miss Cleo has had THE awaited appointment and is now declawed and spayed. I LOVE this cat - she is a total doll, but she put some serious hurtin' on our leather couches during the couples weeks that we had her with claws.


3. 6pm or so on a Sunday - Silas and Daddy on the porch enjoying some gorgeous weather. We have been SO spoiled with gorgeous late summer weather. It might look like we have Silas in his pajamas pretty early...but the truth is...he never got out of his pajamas that day. He loves his "lazy days"!

4. Klutzy Silas has struck again. He fell out of the blue porch chair and did a head-dive onto the concrete. I'm seriously surprised that Childrens Services hasn't come calling on us...


5. Silas started his first round of swim lessons at the Y. He did great. I remember when Mason started taking swim lessons - it took about 10 sessions before he'd even put his face in the water. Luckily, Silas has been around pools and water since birth (thanks to the James' lovely pool). He is totally at ease in the water. He was freezing his butt off though.

6. This school stuff is putting a totally whooping on the kids - they either crash out at the end of the night or are manic for hours on end and refuse to even contemplate sleep. Silas often tells me "I cannot close my eyes in my room" - that is his way of trying to get to sleep in our bed. He's been waking up in the middle of the night for the last 5 or 6 days and coming into bed with us. He is not subtle...he'll come in on my side, I'll sit up so he can climb in and then he totally takes my spot and zonks out in an instant, leaving me to move his jello body over into the middle of the bed, where he promptly completes the H between me and Justin, head in Justin's back and feet in my ribs...this morning he was laughing and giggling in his sleep.


7. This wonderfully, beautiful weather that we are having has gotten us outside a lot in the evenings. I would take the weather year-round with a couple days of snow at Christmas.

8. Justin bought new jeans. Finally. Sam's club jeans. Nice jeans, $12 - can't complain. Here he is in his new jeans moments before leaving for work...luckily I had downed several cups of coffee before he left and was pretty observant...

Yes, I told him before he left the house...


9. Mason - he avoids the camera as much as possible. but he still exists. More about him later....

Parent letter for a teacher

Mason's English teacher gave the parents an assignment - write her a letter about our kid...this was ours.

Mason J. parent letter…

Mason, Mason, Mason…hmm…he is the oldest of 3 children. He has a sister that is 6 years old and in 1^st grade at (DC) and a brother that is 3 years old and in preschool at (AD). We thought for a long time that he’d be an only child but we’re glad that he’s not because he’s a great big brother (though he appears to really love to annoy his younger siblings).

Mason is a kid with a good sense of humor and a good heart. Sometimes he will go overboard with the humor (at least at home!) but will go out of his way to help, to play with the neighbor kids, to tend to animals (ours and others) and he loves our dog, Zoe and kitten, Cleo.

We learned around 2^nd grade that Mason appears to be an auditory learner. He’d learn how to do his spelling words when we’d practice with him in the tub and ask him to spell it out verbally versus having him sit and write it out (which he hated and didn’t seem to learn as much from). He is a great reader and likes to read fiction books (though he will deny that he likes to “read” because he doesn’t think it is “cool”). He’s read all the Harry Potter books, the Twilight series and some Stephen King too. He tends to excel at science. English, on the other hand, is not his best subject - especially writing. He does have a creative mind and when he does write – creates some very interesting stories.

Mason is a POKEY child! When he was making the transition from his 2^nd year of preschool to Kindergarten, his teacher’s only concern was that he is “a pokey child”. He’s unorganized a great deal of the time (as are his parents…), but he is very bright and has done very well in school so far without much effort.

We want to encourage him to understand that high school is different, it takes effort…lots. We want to see that he is putting forth the effort and we want to encourage him to be involved in many different activities to discover his interests in life. Our goal this year is to help him do better with his organizational skills, and encourage him to put more effort into school and to commit to exploring different activities.

One last thing – as a kid, Mason LOVED Batman…to the point that he wouldn’t go out of the house without his mask and cape…

Her response: I LOVE the picture!!! It made my heart just melt.
(mine too...)