Excuses my Son uses to distract himself from his spelling words....... (during 20 minutes of observation time.)

( I wrote this back in September. I enjoyed how this turned out I wanted to post it here. I was sitting next to him on the computer typing as he was talking. Who knew a 7 year old could come up with so many distractions? LOL!)


1) I miss the trampoline we had in Michigan Mom, Who did we give it to???


2)I wonder how they make hot dogs.


3) Can little spiders bite us?


4) We woo woo, We woo woo............


5) Mom this desk has a shelf under it. Cool, I can put my feet there.


6) Hey did you know Dad broke a bullet on Red's bullet press?


7) Hey the furnace kicked on, I think there is a wrapper in the vent I have to get it out.


8) I wonder what my skin looks like under a microscope.


9) Mom I can tell that the desk is made of two pieces of wood because there is a split right here and it's on the bottom too.


10) Mom I have to go potty.


11) When I get done with my spelling words can I watch TV? I haven't got to watch TV all week! (Because that was the first privledge he lost for not writing his spelling words and wasting time, LOL!)


12) (one minute after the trip to the bathroom, he's found standing in the living room watching Spongebob.) I was talking to Dani!


13) Can you shoot deer in town? Mom your bow is right there!!!!!!! ( I was tempted, nice 8 point. 30 yards from our front door!)


14) Mom, Libby needs a hug!


15) Momma, I want the heater back on!


16) My pencil makes a cool sound when I roll it on the metal part of my notebook.


17) Mom I like that free candy bucket.


18) It would be cool if there were less pieces of paper in my notebook and I could hook my pencil into it. (?????????)


19) Dad said he could make handmade slingshots!!!! Dad said he would make me one someday.


20) Why did Dani cut a hole in my shirt? Are you going to sew it? That dorkus Dani!!


21) What's that game you play on the computer? The one with bubbles that go Swoop?


22) I would like to listen to some music while I am doing my work.


23) The phone is ringing who is it???????


24) Mom, I need to go get a pad or something, I hate this wooden chair!!!!


25) (Yells out the window) Hi Cindy, I waved at my doggy Cinder's.......


26) Mom, what's this stuff? (points at a can of bag balm)


27) ( He makes "bathroom" noises then laughs at himself.)


28) Mom, guess what Brandon did? He had that little soccer ball from the game and he hit Matthew in the head with it for no reason. And he accidentally kicked him in the bounce house.


29) Mom, guess what you can do with these things? ( A magnet he made at Church that has clothespins on it.) You can put a rubber band on it and pull it back and shoot it at someone.


30) Mom, how's come that stuff you put in your hair is called moose? It doesn't look like a moose.


31) Mom, I can get that wrapper out of the vent with your screwdriver.


32) Mom, why do vaccumes have lights on them? So you don't suck up something at night that is important?


33) We should get the Orick halo!!! (Don't know why, I guess the commercials really appeal to 7 year old boys.)


34) Why does the furnace stop every 5 seconds?


35) Mom what does solicited mean? ( not even on his spelling list, don't know where he came up with that word.)


36) I'm getting excited because Dad said your going to order that airplaine motor starter thing for our planes today, right?????


37) I can't get my pencil out of the metal wire on my notebook!!!!!!


38) There are pieces of eraser on Dad's desk I better get them off so Dad's desk isn't messy.


39) Mom, I would do my work faster if I had music.


40) Mom there are flies stuck on the sticky, icky fly trap. Hhahahahaha!!!!!

May flowers??????

May 10 2010

They always say, "April showers bring May flowers." That statement does not apply to Wyoming. We moved here from Michigan nearly 3 years ago. By this time in Michigan all of my bulbs are in various stages of life. The crocus bulbs are nearing the end and I have tulips and Hyacinths nearly blooming. In Wyoming I am witnessing yet another spring snow. There are signs of life in my flower bed which is only a tenth of the size of the flower bed in Michigan. The columbine, bleeding hearts, russian sage, and coral bells have teeny tiny leaves all struggling to see the light of day. This morning while looking out the window to see the snow flying I looked down to my sad little flower bed. A shock of pink color was poking out of the ground. I was immediatley thinking, "Did I plant anything with pink flowers last year, that would be coming back?" A quick search of my memory and I had decided that the only thing that was pink in my garden that was a perenial was my phlox and that was no where near blooming. I looked closer. (Through the window, of course, because it is nice and chilly out this morning.) Once I leaned forward enough to see all of the pink flowers I realized that they were fake. Where did they come from?? Up the hill from us is the town cemetary. It is nice to live so close because my family likes to take walks up the hill and then take a nice view of the town from the cemetary. The other day when we took our walk I noticed that a lot of the fake flowers that had been on some of the gave site had blown down the hill and rested in the chain link fence. Those who were not caught in the fence were either in the road or blown down the alley across from the entrance to the cemetary. Anyone who has ever visited Wyoming, knows that it can be a very windy place. Last week we clocked the wind gust's at 80 MPH. My Husband is a kite flyer, and he has a wind meter. Plastic and fabric flies really well in high wind. So that alley across from the cemetary that leads nearly straight down to my front yard, delivers little bunches of flowers, even during snow. My seven year old Son thought that it would make Momma's garden look better. LOL! What a sweet boy. He knows how anxious Momma is to see flowers in the garden.