Sunday morning commentary...

While watching Bizarre Foods...

E: "What country is Seoul in?"
Me: "Korea."
E: "North or South?"
Me: "Oh. South, I think."
E: "Did you know that North Korea and South Korea don't like each other?"
Me: "Yep. They have a lot of problems."
E: "It's crazy. The President of Asia should step in and be, like, 'Enough already. Share your stuff.'"

A little later...

E: "I'm trying to record Rudolph, but it says two other shows are scheduled to record at that time: New Girl and Teen Mom 2."
Me: "You can cancel New Girl."
E: "Why not Teen Mom 2? Didn't you watch it when it was recorded before?"
Me: "I did. It's a new one."
E: "A new Teen Mom? When will these girls learn? Quit having babies already."

And a little later...

E: "Quit kissing me! It's gross!"
Me: "But I looooove you! It's not gross."
E: "Is, too. They're germy and smell like octopus."
Me: "Octopus?! You're nuts. You've never even smelled an octopus."
E: "I know, but I bet it smells like that leftover turkey you just ate."

A difference of tradition...

E: "Did you know the football game just started?"
Me: "Yep."
E: "So why are we still watching this parade?"
Me: "It's tradition! Yea for parades!"
E: "We've had, like, two hours of your tradition."
*channel changes*

E: "Go Packers! This is MY favorite tradition."
Me: "Game on."

Hope you all have a fabulous Thanksgiving!

Fiscally anti-fun...

On our way to Target to pick up prescriptions...

E: "If I didn't have asthma, we'd probably have more money right now."
Me: "We have plenty of money. And I don't pay for your medicine - my insurance does."
E: "But you have to pay for insurance."
Me: "Right, but I pay for it so we don't have to pay when we need to see a doctor or get medicine."
E: "Oh. That's right. We're just not spending extra because the holidays are coming."
Me: "Right. We're just being responsible so we can buy fun stuff for Christmas."
E: "Yep. We still have money for food and bills and stuff, though."
Me: "Right."
E: "We're just not spending money on fun stuff like Dave & Busters or new toys."
Me: "Right. We're just saving where we can."
E: "Yep. Makes sense. Who needs to have that much fun, anyway?"
Me: *Sigh* "Right."

He does this on purpose: Teacher's edition

I have a lot of theories about my beloved E, and one of them is that he does seemingly innocuous things on a daily basis just to mess with me. I could write a list of recent occurrences, but you'd all just call me crazy. Frankly, I'm not sure you'd be wrong.
It seems that he's found a new target. E is great at spelling. We practice his words in the evening, but I think he would bring home 100's even if we didn't. In Kindergarten, he wrote a short story in class. Some of his letters were backwards and his spacing left much to be desired, but he spelled considered, giraffes, and gigantic correctly.

This test does not surprise me. He makes me proud every week.

It also doesn't surprise me that he would intentionally misspell the word bonus, since he knows Mrs. X isn't grading him on that word. He does this on purpose, people.

I hardly know him...

Outside goofing around...
Me: "What's your favorite subject at school these days?"
E: "You probably know."
Me: "P.E.?"
E: "That's not even a subject."
Me: "I know, but it's what you always say---"
E: "---But it's not a subject. My favorite subject is math."
Me: "That was going to be my next guess."
E: "Yeah. Because math is a subject."
Me: "I know. So what's your favorite time of the day at school?"
E: "You probably know."
Me: "P.E.?"
E: "Why do you keep talking about P.E.?"
Me: "You love P.E."
E: "But it's not my favorite time of the day. Lunch is my favorite time of the day."
Me: "Lunch? Not recess?"
E: "I'm growing, like, an inch a day. I need lots of food to make that happen."
Me: "Oh, ok."
E: "It's like you don't even know me sometimes, silly Mom."

It takes a trained eye...

We recently spent a weekend in Houston visiting some close friends and attending their sweet baby girl's first birthday party. My friend K was creating some targets to use for a water balloon game, and since E was running around like a wild man, K let him help with his project.

I came outside after they'd finished....

E: "Mom! K and I made targets for the game."
Me: "Awesome!"
E: "Can you tell which one I made?"
Me: "Hm. I'm going to guess the one on the right."
E: "How can you tell?"
Me: "It's just a guess."
E: "Sigh. Whatever. You just know my handwriting."