Oh no, Silly Me, That's Not Right.....

It's time again for another installment of Confessions of A Four-Year-Old. Today we were busy catching up on some much needed home school since we were away at The Gathering with the Firestarters in Ottertail, MN (more details and pics to come). I could tell he was a tad too sleepy to be reading about rats and cats and sacks, but we made it through.

We are going through the book Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and even though he's only four, Kaydn Rye thinks it's great and usually doesn't give me any problems. Usually I'm the one who ends up in time out if anything. Seriously, you may never know just how frustrated you can get until you start home schooling. Right now, Kaydn Rye has "Hmmph Syndrome," and when he doesn't get it right the first time he crosses his arms and says "Hmmph. I didn't do it."

While I'm trying to curb such wonderful enthusiasm with regards to failure, since it's probably going to happen a few times in his lifetime, at least one of us usually ends up "taking a break" in the process.

Yesterday was such a day, and when we congregated again at the home school table, he was still struggling to read his second sentence and said to himself, "Oh, no. Silly me, that's not right. You just have to keep trying and then you'll get it right."

And then after home school he was still talking about this weird little ball toy that he lost at my mom's house about a month ago. Here was his solution to the missing toy, "Mom, can we just go all over the world and look for it? We'll find it somewhere in the world."

I'm not exactly planning a trip around the world in search of his $4 little toy.

Then I went upstairs to fold some laundry, which is an improvement over our usual system of just pulling whatever we need out of the clean clothes basket. That system has worked well for me for years, and when we've pulled everything out of the clean clothes basket, I just pull some more clothes out of the dryer. But I guess I actually decided to put the clothes in drawers and while I was busy, busy with the laundry, Kaydn Rye was doing karate in his room. I asked him what in the world he was doing in there, and he said, "I'm learning how to be a Jedi master."

"So you don't want to first learn how to be a Jedi?" I asked.

"Nope, I wanna be a Jedi master."

Now we're off to take Gertie to the vet. I came home from my week long trip to Minnesota to find my hostas plants being completely eaten alive, weeds in the garden, dust rolling across the hardwood floors and Gertie with open wounds on her back.

As Kaydn Rye says, "Gertie is damaged." So we're off to the vet.



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