Ok so I promised to tell everyone where the name came from but I am saving that for another day. Oddly enough second post of the new blog and it will not be about "seizures" or "slaying them" or anything regarding Luke. Today was a pretty uneventful day in my house just a little mishap with Lily and Alex getting into my makeup. I realized I need to teach them both how to apply mascara and lipstick because they thought the mascara was for their lips and the lipstick went all over! Literally crisis's like these are normally ever 5 minute occurrences. People will say they understand because everyone has had children but when your friends set their ring tones to circus music you realize your house is a little more 3 ring than everyone elses. So I won't go on to tell you the rest of the acts of the day cause Luke peeing all over the kitchen floor and in the dog food container, fishing in the toilet, climbing over the banister, eating his socks to the point he gagged happen all the time! But a serious conversation with Daddy doesn't happen everyday.
My husband is much different than me, I suppose in a way that is why we work. He is obviously much quieter maybe because he doesn't get the opportunity to add much to a conversation with me blabbing all the time. But tonight in the car on the way home after sharing the makeup story he looked sick. I looked at him and said, "What?" He said in a very quiet voice so Alex who was in the back seat jamming to his favorite song which appropriately is "Mean Girls" by Sugarland "Alex said to me yesterday when I grow up I want to be a girl Daddy!" Of course i just busted up laughing! He didn't find that the least bit humorous and seemed very concerned! Alex has shown a real big interest in makeup, bows, girls and anything pink, especially since Lily was born. Mommy realizes that some not all boys go through this and it doesn't mean anything but to a Daddy it seems harder to cope with. Then out of nowhere we were back to the recent debate on whether to sent Alex to Kindergarten this fall or wait a year since he will be 5 in June. I am 100% certain he is ready but daddy's reasons are all about him being the smallest in the class. I tried to explain that height is genetic he is who he is. Even if we kept him back and for a few years and he was a head taller than most children eventually he will probably be the last in line at graduation when the other children keep growing and he stops. Steve has no confident about being the short one and never has. Apparently he must have had some rough childhood moments relating to his size! So I told him he really needs to focus on teaching Alex to be confident about who he is and not worry about things he can not change like if he wants to be a woman or is too small. Steve said how do I teach him something I don't know how to do. I told him to think about all of the small people in the world who have done great things in their lives. He quipped back, "you mean like the "little people" who they use to knock down bowling pins with, or the midget strippers! All of his examples were about "little people" he saw on Jerry Springer! Even my great words of wisdom couldn't talk me out of this one! We will have to keep working on the whole size issue!
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Johnathan went through a "girl phase" too. He is out of it now.
ReplyDeleteI vote for waiting for kindergarten, not sure you are taking a poll, but whatever. My hubby went early, he was a bit smaller too, and although it matured him VERY FAST, he had to scrap and work and claw his way to get what he wanted. Which can be great. So send him. Or don't. Pro's either way!!!