Ah children.  Don’t you love how they repeat everything you say?  That happened to Joel today, a couple of times.  First, when hustling the boys up the stairs for a bath after gymnastics, Dexter had clearly pushed Joel’s button and Joel responded with the count to a time out.  Dexter turned around and threw it right back in his face, using the same words.  Hmmmmmm -how does one respond?  Then, sometime this evening, Nicholas walks into the family room and says in a non religious way “Jesus Christ ….” to which I turned to Joel and raised my eyebrows.  I walked away to Joel explaining to Nicholas that we should not take the Lord’s name in vain, that he (Joel) had made a mistake and that Nicky should never say that at school or around me, I think.

Oh, don’t get me wrong.  I had my moments too.  Dexter and I got into a fight right before bed that ended with Dex in a timeout that he then self extended so that he missed all his stories.  That kid is incredibly stubborn.  I think the strain of repeated sickness and lack of firm routine with Joel still home is wearing on everyone.  I know that Joel really wants to be back at work but that his arms are not fully recovered yet.  We are losing track of time – the weekend feel seems to go on forever, and yet we are not accomplishing much.  It is kind of frustrating.

But enough venting.  Two other interesting events.  The boys are greatly improved in their gymnastics class.  It is amazing to see.  At one point in time, Coach Annie had the boys all attempting head stands and had put a round plastic bulls-eye on the floor mat for them to put their heads on.  She said to Dexter, who had gotten tired of not being able to do the exercise, to put his head on the bulls-eye.  In typical Dexter fashion, he picked up the plastic circle and put it on his head.  That was that for that exercise.  :)   We also went on our first light saber walk.  Both Nicky and Dexter were bouncy after dinner.  Seeing them start wildly swinging their light sabers around in the house, I suggested we all go for a walk after dinner.  So, we trudged around our neighborhood, with light sabers in hand, defeating the Sith who attacked up, cutting up Joel’s legs and yelling at Nicky to stop and let Dexter lead for once.  Nicholas never wants to let Dexter go first, unless it’s deemed an unpleasant experience, in which case he volunteers Dexter to go first.

So, that was our day.  Nothing too exciting anymore.  Just cute and not so cute moments from time to time……

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