I Got Some "Splaining" To Do

I know.  I know.  It's been too long.  Don't be giving me the hairy eyeball, Ricky.

Just a few days ago, we got home from our vacation to Wisconsin/Illinois.  And that has me still sorta tired.  (Too tired to type?  Shut it.)  Plus, July is winding down, and that means I'm settling into bigtime sulking about school starting up again.  All of this has led to sort of the stagnant blog situation that I got goin' on.  But I'll work on it.

Let's back up to pre-vacation.  Ever heard of "Cow Appreciation Day" at Chick-Fil-A?  Well, my friend Schlager has, and she assigned my family to go in early July.  This assignment was given under the guise of "you'll get free food", but I also understand that she occasionally likes any chance she can get to laugh at my kids.  And I'm pretty happy to objectify them for her.  It's a good relationship. 

Anyway, as per the guidelines of "Cow Appreciation Day", a free meal is handed out to any customer that is dressed (head to toe) like a cow.  It ain't complicated.

I rubbed my hands together and got to work on bovine-children-costume-constructing.  I needed me some nuggets.

Bring on the next assignment, Andrea.  This one was FUN!

A Reenactment

Jack, Emma, and I were sitting at Subway yesterday enjoying our ham sandwiches.  We had just come from the fabulous IPA educational store.  Now normally, I would ban this store during the thick of summer because, as Jack pointed out, the place even "SMELLS like a classroom."  But see... Jack had saved some of his money and was dying to spend it on a certain police officer puppet that he had seen when we went there in May.  (No, I'm not sure what was so special about the police officer puppet either.)  And so, I held my nose, and we went.

Jack shopped and ended up not liking the puppet he had been fantasizing about all summer after all.  Something about its eyes not being even.  (He is his father's son.)  But he did continue to shop, and after much deliberation, he decided he was ready to buy some small plastic replicas of skeletons that one can put together.  Okay, go for it, Jack.

He couldn't wait until home though.  He had to put his little plastic skeleton together while eating at Subway.  And this brings me to where I started.

So, with a mouthful of ham sandwich, Jack asks, "Mom, is this right?"  And he holds up his skeleton, boasting that he didn't even have to read the directions.  We've reenacted it for you below:

And in seeing that it looked right, I nodded that I thought so.  Next came this.  And this is why the reenactment was very necessary:

"Well, HIGH FIVE then!" 

And that's where I lost it.



Happy Fourth 2011!

We had a nice, relaxing fourth of July in our driveway... just the four of us.  I hope yours was great!

Amazing Lemonade

"Amazing" lemonade from an amazing kid.