Yee Haw!!!

36 days till school starts!!!!!

Too much TV

Recently on Nick, there has been a commercial wherein a young teen with great bravado and a bright pink shirt announces, "Pink! It's the new black." Lastborn has always liked that commercial. I never thought he really understood the message of don't follow what everyone else tells you is cool. But yesterday, he surprised me.

Lastborn has earned his camouflage belt in Tae Kwon Do. This is the 4th level of belt in the system we are following and it brings him to the intermediate level. He never talks about how far he wants to go in Tae Kwon Do. He never talks about wanting to be a black belt, but he has been impressed with the fact that he is at the intermediate level now and he has always been impressed with the camo color.

So in class (there were only 4 kids there) he holds the ends of his belt and announces,
"Camo! It's the new black."

The instructors were all shocked as was I. But even more so when he started to boss the kids around in class as if he were the black belt teaching the class. He obviously completely gets the message of the commercial as well as the structure of the do jong.

As I say in so many of these posts, should I be scared?

Bugs!!!

Lastborn: Mommy, there's a bug in the house!
Mom: Ok, I'll get it.
Lastborn: Maybe it's an earpig.
Mom: An earpig? You mean an earwig?
Lastborn: yah. An earwig.
Firstborn: What's an earwig?
Mom: come look at it before I pick it up.
She turns over the partially squished bug that's still wiggling it's legs.
Mom: See? It has pinchers on one end. It moves really fast.
Lastborn: And it never dies!