This morning, out of the blue, Alice offered me a deal. She like making deals these days. She thinks that she benefits from these deals and has not yet learned that we (her parents) are indeed smarter than she is.
So this morning she says to me: "OK Mom, I have a deal to make with you. I won't say never anymore. Well, except when I sing the song from Jake and the Neverland Pirates - Never Say Never, No Never. That time it is k to say Never. OK? If I say Never, I will go to my room for 10 hours or I will go to the corner for 10 hours. OK? Is that a deal?
Me: "So what you are saying is that if you say something like "You never let me...." or "I never get to..." then I can send you to your room for 10 hours?
Alice: "Yes, is that a deal?"
Me: "Um, Yes, OK, you have a deal!"
Fast forward 4 hours to her asking me to go out and buy a birthday present for some random girl at school. I told her that I was not going to spend my money on some girl I never met. So she told me that she would use her own money to buy a present. I said no to that as well.
Alice, on the verge of tears: "You NEVER let me spend my money!"
Me: "Ah ha, you said never. Please go to your room for 10 hours."
Alice, sobbing: "But that time I HAD to say never and I forgot to say that this morning that when I HAVE to say never, I can."
And that, my friends is a very typical conversation with my five year old.
It has been over a year since I have blogged here. Man, talk about a busy year. Alice turned 5 in October and is going to private Christian school for Kindergarten (she missed the state age regulations by 12 days for public school) where she is learning far too much about loving Jesus and far too little about other pertinent things for my taste but she is enjoying it and that is more than I really can ask for. She will be transferring to the local public school for first grade and I am eager to see how different the learning structure/style will be.
Ben and Cooper will turn 3 in April and have been through a whirlwind this year. They are both receiving speech therapy and next week we will find out if they will be accepted into a 3 year old pre-k program which will be half day and will carry them through until they start full day kindergarten. We want them to get in to the program so badly for obvious reasons but also to start reducing the boatloads to cash we are pouring into daycare.
It is my aim to begin blogging here at least once a week. I will most likely be not much more than funnies from the kids or photos but it will be something.
