It’s been 25 years since I had to get a 6 year old dressed and ready for catching a school bus. I don’t know how we did it!
I figured that if the bus comes at 7:15, we need to walk out the door at 7:07 to give us plenty of time to get down the street to the corner bus stop. So I set the alarm for 6:00 am. Ugh.
This boy took FOREVER to wake up and start moving around. He’s worse than ME before my coffee!!!!!!
School starts on August 14, so I want to get the list of school supplies and start picking up those things over the next two weeks.
All the WalMarts have a cardboard display with photocopies of each school’s name and grade specific school supplies that need to be bought and delivered to the school on the student’s first day.
I checked two different WalMarts for our school’s list and they don’t have any. So I asked at customer service and they told me that the school has not given them the lists yet. I don’t know if that’s true, but I would hope the customer service clerk isn’t lying.
We have dogs and treat them like part of the family. They stay indoors unless put on a leash and walked in our own yard. Once in a great while we take a couple of them to a park for a change of scenery. But the dogs are not allowed outside without their harness and leash.
The grandson has a hard time realizing that if the door is not closed completely that the dogs can escape. That is a lot of drama, as the dogs run hysterically down the street and risk getting run over by heavy traffic or in a fight with other neighborhood dogs.
We are working on that.
The Fourth of July is always a big event for the city. There are hundreds of thousands of people downtown for the all day festival and parade, then about 9:00 pm the symphony starts playing patriotic songs and the Chamber of Commerce hosts a nice 20 minute fireworks display.
But this year the weather was threatening. There have been tornado watches issued since about 5:00 pm, so we aren’t going to risk going downtown and having a problem with lightning or tornadoes. At least we bought a few fireworks at the local stand and can shoot a few in our yard to celebrate before the storm.
She doesn’t seem the least bit concerned about teaching him to swim. He is already 6 and can’t do anything but splash in the lake and the pool at their apartments. So I’ve signed him up for swim lessons at the YMCA and paid for them myself. If she can’t take him to class 4 days a week for an hour, then I will do it. Kids need to learn how to swim while they are still fearless.
We had one tooth come out over the summer and then. . . . nothing. I was thinking it is getting awfully late to be losing teeth now – he is six and only one tooth out.
Well, yesterday he was playing a video game and his hand went up to his mouth and he realized that another tooth was loose. So he showed me and I thought, well that will be an issue for a couple days while it works itself loose and falls out. But an hour later, he put the video game on pause and spit into his hand. There was the tooth! Loose for an hour! That must be a world record!
We put it into a little baggie so he wouldn’t loose it on the way home. I’m told that he put it under his pillow and the Tooth Fairy didn’t forget this time to put a dollar under his pillow in payment for the second tooth.