12 posts tagged “christian”
Christian may be 10.5 but he is still my baby.
He had his elementary school graduation last Thursday.
His very last elementary school report card consisted of three A's, two B's and a C+. I am so proud of him. His school had a graduation ceremony and luncheon and then for dinner we got a cake and went to a local pizza place and ate pizza and had cake.
Last night was JUNIOR HIGH ORIENTATION.
That was one jam packed auditorium of hormones and Winny junior highers.
Looking around I saw alot of baggy pants, baseball caps, giggly girls, lip smacking gum and yes, plenty of eye rolling
Can Christian really be leaving the safety of Elementary school and entering the big scary world of CHANGES?
He was mortified when the PE teacher stood up and explained "dressing out" for PE and then he got all antsy during the "rotating" schedule conversation.
On a side note, you couldn't pay me to go back through being a pre-teen/teenager.
The kids and their Grandma Judy have had new pets. They've been taking care of caterpillars that eventually made cocoons and then became butterflies all in shoe boxes. Yesterday was THE DAY according to their little birth paperwork to release them into the wild.
So Friday morning was no different then any other. I got the two older kids up and then went downstairs to make them breakfast, while they got dressed. Minutes later they come bouncing down the stairs like a heard of elephants. They both took seats at the bar in the kitchen while I finished making their french toast. While they were eating Christian said:
"Mom, it's crazy hair day, you have to do my hair really weird!"
"Christian, you have to leave in 7 minutes are you sure it's crazy hair day? I don't know if we have time to do it."
"Mom, I'm positive it's crazy hair day. The kids in ASB said so at the assembly. Please, I have to do it!"
"Ok, hurry up and eat and I'll do it."
So he finishes eating quicker then I've ever seen. Then he ran back upstairs and got the brush, gel and hairspray.
Once back down stairs, I said, "Christian are you 100% positive it's crazy hair day before I do it?"
"Yes, Mom I'm 1000% positive and I really want it to look really weird!"
So of course I started ratting it and spraying it and I used globs and globs of Bed head ice, which is so sticky that my hand kept cramping and getting stuck on his head. This was the end result...
He looked like a 10 year old Albert Einstein! It was so funny!!!
So after school I called him to see if everyone liked his Crazy Do.....But......Apparently it wasn't crazy hair day after all...He was a week too early. So he said he rushed into the bathroom and tried to slick it down as best as possible!
This picture is fantastic, especially since I've always referred to my little ones as my Chicklings!
Christian, Madyson, Makenna, Ethan
Last night my son broke my heart. We had some friends over and were playing a mad game of "Mexican Train" and telling jokes, when my friend says, "It's so neat how you guys are always telling jokes and kidding around with the kids. You both are so good about interacting with them. I like how you guys try and involve the kids in as much as possible." It was a great compliment! Then he asked from across the table, "Is hell a bad word in your house?" I said, "No not necessarily." He then proceeded to tell a joke to us, Christian and Maddy. It was,
"What do you get if you mix a rino and a elephant?" Our response, "What?" He answered, "hell-if-I-know!" Christian immediately said, "Really where do those live? I've never seen one?" We all started laughing.... Then I said I'm dreading the day that one of my boys tells a "Your Mama joke...The guys in my office do all the time and it drives me crazy!!" Christian then jumped up from the table and said, "Ooh, Ooh I know one, I know one!" I was stunned! Tears came to my eyes, as everyone else laughed. This is what came next:
"Your Mama's so fat she saw a school bus driving down the street and yelled, ooh twinkie!"
At that moment, my heart broke! I now realize that I am old. My boys will talk bad about me and all of their friends mothers, with continous "Your Mama" jokes. How depressing!
Ok, so it's time for the oldest kid...and theres so many thoughts and stories to share...I can't even imagine life without kids and all the amusement that comes along with them.
* Christian is the kid of many names. Three years ago he announced that he would like to be called "Dawg". So, thats what we call him. He even has my father saying "what up Dawg". It's so cute!
* This kid contains an unbelievable amount of wit. His mind is always reeling with ways to come out ahead in every situation.
* He keeps a ring in his underwear drawer for his "girlfriend" Kayle. They've been "dating" since birth.
* Christian now knows "who" Santa is. So a few weeks ago over dinner in front of his younger siblings he says, "Santa always gets what you ask for so I'm gonna ask for my own phone line in my room".... He was answered with a glare from the parental side of the table and that was the end of that conversation.
* Christian has nicked named his sister Madyson, "Bratyson". (It's fitting, Ryan and I wish we would have thought of it first)
* He always spends at least a portion of his allowance on his baby sister Makenna. She's his favorite and he's her's.
* Christain is the king of jokes in our house. My favorite. "Why'd piglet go down the toilet?" "why?", "to find Pooh".
* He pretends to be rough and tough, but he still manages to call me at work and tell me he loves me on almost a daily basis.
* When he was about five, he packed himself in a large card board box with a pair of underware, a bottled water and his Larry boy doll and asked if we could mail him to his Aunt Staceys house. (I cried! What imagination!)
* So far, Christian is the only kid who has called me any names, well to my face anyways...) When he was barely a toddler, I sent him to his room for something and he turned around about halfway down the hall and said, "All right Cruelilla"! Wow! I was so in shock that he thought of the meanest Disney character to call me. I called my mother and apoligized for every name I had ever called her.
* Christian will sit in his room for hours and hours building legos. He's a fantastic builder. He has so much patience building something and then takes it apart and starts all over. He calls himself the "master builder".
Yesterday was the kids school assembly and Christian and his cousin Grant both got student of the month for their prospective classes. Strange, that they would both receive awards for school on the same day. Guess their just good boys! I know this year has been light-years better for each of them in the academic category. Last year, both of their teachers weren't that fantastic and this year...well they are!
Christian's easy to spot with the glasses in the back row and Grant is the goof in the front row with a smile that spreads from ear to ear... They both have the long surfer style hair thing going on and actually look a lot alike. Grant just got glasses last week, but, only needs to wear them when reading or watching TV, unlike Christian who's completely blind and can't be without his. How lucky we are to have these to kids!
In earlier posts from last week I mentioned that Christian was saving all his money to buy a Nintendo Wii. Well as of last Wednesday after opening his last gift from my sister, Denice, he had enough money. Yep, $249.00!!!! What a good saver! It was his allowance money from several weeks and all his birthday money combined. We were very proud of him for being so frugal and saving. So, needless to say on Thursday we started calling around to locate a Wii and literally every store was sold out. He was so bummed, that is until Saturday when a clerk at Walmart told me they were expecting a lot for Sundays ad, but the shipment didn't come in until after the store closes so to call on Sunday morning and see if they got them in. Well thankfully time changed and we gained an hour, so when we called Walmart bright and early at 7am, to my body it was really 8! Anyways, the girl who answered the electronics department phone said they had received 28 in on Saturday night and they still had 2 in stock! Hallelujah!!! So Christian and I threw on some shoes and drove up there. He counted out his money, although he was short the $24.00 for tax (which his Nana said he could work off at her house by cleaning all the baseboards with soap and water).
Yes, victory and a happy kid by 7:15am
Its 8:48pm and the doorbell just rang. Ryan went to answer it and found a paper with a bag attached lying on the doorstep.... Apparently, we've been "boo'd"... It says a spook delivered it! It was to addressed to Christan and says he needs to copy it twice and spook someone else. I read the whole thing to the kids and Maddy got big eyes every-time I said, spook, ghost or goblin. The paper bag attached is full of candy. The good stuff, whoppers, Hersey's and Reese's! Yum! Now I need to figure out who did it and repay them with a chain letter of some other annoying kind.....Because I hate chain anything!
p.s. I guess I should take that last comment back. Christian just came and placed a Reese's on the keyboard! Yep, chocolate always makes me happy.
