Tell a Chum story every day

Me: “Are you going to make any resolutions for the new year, chum?”
“Do another triathlon…. Bike more…. Swim more.”
Me: “Run more?”
“No.” makes a face.

Later, Me: “My resolution is to kiss you 5 times every day.”
“You already do that. How about we kiss 10 times a day. Let’s do it now.”
Much kissing ensued.

Coming in at 5 minutes and he was pretty much asleep and his legs were way off the bed so I whispered that we needed to get him back into bed and started moving him and he came awake and started drowsily making demands.
“Mommy. Number one, give me a kiss. Number two, give me a hug. Number three, tuck me into bed all cozy.”
So I did and git him into the center of the bed and he murmured, “That’s so cozy and snuggily.” and was asleep in 2 seconds.

Most of that time, we’d been wearing goggles since there was a lot of underwater battling in our game.
I took of my goggles and the chum swam up to me and looked.
“You look oh…” He stopped, looking a bit embarrassed.
“Were you going to say, ‘You look old?’ because of how my eyes look?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s OK. It doesn’t hurt my feelings. Goggles do make you look very wrinkly and old.”
“Yeah. I look old too, Do I look old?”

Right, chum.

“How was Lego camp today?”
“It was OK. I got my first DNF.”
“Oh”
“We were making pyramids with just 2 by 2s and 2 by 4s and mine kept falling down. It wasn’t very stable.”
“Did the teachers call them DNFs?”
“No. Just me.”

and they’re doing a story on the probability of passenger space flight in the not-so-distant future. They discuss how passengers might need to help the astronauts and the potential risks. The chum is in the back playing Pokemon, but commenting on the piece
The story ends and I ask him, “Would you like to do that? Go up in a spaceship?”
The chum makes some noises and then says, “Maaaay-be.” pause “If I had nine lives, then I would use one of my lives for that.”

The last day of school was also crazy hair day because apparently it isn’t hard enough to get your kid organized and out the door for the last day, you need to add an extravagant hairstyle.

The chum was, of course, in his element with many demanded that changed every second. After playing around with it for a while, we all settled on this three horns look which required a lot of product and hairdrying.

Since less than complimentary comments on the playground have lead to a lot of drama, I armed him with the phrase, “You’re just jealous.” but it was unneeded as his hairstyle was deemed impressive.

When I came back in 3 hours, as expected, it looked like a cross between Dan Zanes and a werewolf.

I’m planning to read him this one but then not rush into the next one, to increase suspense and because he’s not ready for the scarier ones yet.

Anyway, it’s been an orgy of reading this weekend (3 hours today!) and he’s enthralled. We ended today as they approach Hogwarts and I’m reading the description.
“It’s Hogwart’s Castle!” the chum shouts out. “That’s the biggest Harry Potter Lego set!”

Coming back to check on him, the chum was upset
“Mommy, it is a big mistake that we are cutting up the Lego boxes.”
We’ve been cutting one side off the boxes and he uses them on the wall, like posters. I know full well that the chum would really like to keep every box, as he would like to keep every item he ever touches, but this was my compromise.
“Yeah? Why?”
“Because when I give the Legos to my little boy and girl, they won’t have the boxes!”
“Well, they will have the instructions. They have pictures too.”
“But I will want to wrap them in something and…. what about the bags with numbers on them! Wait! I think that for doing a good clean sweep I will just give them an already made Atlantis Gates or Intergalactic Enforcer.”
Phew. Problem solved….. for now.

After a morning at the park an afternoon in the car and on the floor building Legos, the chum pronounced:
“I have to take off my skinny jeans. After I wear my skinny jeans all day they’re not so comfortable and they pinch the back of my legs.”

He delightedly points out that the new block/ ball set has purple blocks. Then, “Even though I changed my favorite colors, I still have a warm place in my heart for purple.”