3 posts tagged “sam”

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...

Feb 27, 2008
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Sam's second tooth fell out. Well, actually it didn't fall out it fell in, as in down his throat. It had been insanely loose all February vacation, he twisted and turned it but it just didn't want to come out. Until he was at school, just like his first tooth.

I got a phone call from the nurse who told me that my panic stricken son had come in after lunch. He was happily eating his sandwich and laughing when he felt a hole with his tongue and realized his tooth was gone. Everyone searched all around (um, ewwww) with no luck. So the general consensus is that he swallowed it. After being assured that baby tooth number 2 wouldn't puncture a lung or some horrible thing, Sam was still very upset. He figured no tooth, equals no tooth fairy, equals no moolah.

Being raised a Jehovah's Witness and having absolutely NO fun during my childhood days, I'm not familiar with the rules of pretend beings...I have to defer to my spouse for what is Canon on Santa, the Easter bunny, Fairies etc. He assured me the tooth fairy would of course still give some cash, he assured me that I was mentally ill as well because well DUH, WE are the tooth fairy. Anyway, in an effort to soothe my first born's fears, I did what any mother would do, I wrote him a letter. From the Tooth Fairy. SHUT UP!! Will this make it better or worse when he realizes we made up all these things?

Anyway...I give you...a big fat lie, but done out of love!! Ugh...and for the record, it had cute little clip art tooth fairy pictures and teeth on it and I cut it out in the shape of a tooth and, and, and, yeah he's gonna need therapy isn't he?

Dear Sam,

I was flying around Tooth Fairy-Ville today, doing my errands, getting ready for my nightly visits, when I heard that you had lost your second tooth!! I also heard that you swallowed it and you were afraid that would mean I wouldn’t be stopping by.

My dear boy, I know you take such good care of your teeth and I reward that no matter what, your baby tooth will be fine, lots of little boys and girls swallow their baby teeth, please don’t worry. I’ve left a reward for you too, enjoy and keep brushing!

Your Pal,

The Tooth Fairy

Boy...Interrupted?

Oct 16, 2007
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I just received the following e-mail:

"Hi Kathi,

I am the Room-Aide in Sams class. I am currently attending a Child Development class to future my education. I have a case study on child development and I would like to use Sam for my project. Parents giving there approval would need to sign a form stating that and also fill out a few questions. If that would be alright, I could send the papers home with Sam and you could return the papers in Sams folder. Also to let you know Sams name would never appear on any of my project. I would be observing Sam during class at all centers and writing a paper. Thank you for your consideration please let me know if that would be alright."

Aside from the lack of apostrophes, proper spelling and paragraph formation, and the fact that she said, "future my education" rather than Further my education, should I be concerned?

I realize I'm generally demented and tend to ~~always~~ occasionally over analyze things, and that's OK as long as it's about me. Throw my kids into the mix and things really get messy. I mean I'd like to think she wants to use Sam as a subject because he's hysterically funny, and smart and CUTE, did I mention cute? She seems to think he's a hoot, I've seen it with my own eyes. But come on..what the hell kind of a paper would that be. Which leads me to think she wants to use him because of something she's noticed or something. Like Child Development and the future Sociopath or Multiple Personalities and the Kindergartner. UGH. If I say no she'll think I'm an evil bitch or worse hiding something!! If I say yes, then I get to obsess forever about what it says about my kid in some obscure, poorly written, grammatically incorrect paper! It's not like she'll let me read it...would she!?!

It hurts to be my brain most days...

Forgive me Father for I have sinned...

Sep 4, 2007
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...It's been 4 months since my last blogging session. Yikes, well first of all, I told you I had commitment issues! Sheesh. In my defense I've had the most insane 4 months um, ever. I'm not good with change as it is, but when I'm dealing with 5 or 6 large, life altering changes at once, well, I'm sure you understand the lack of blogging dear Internet.

Just this morning, Sean, Gracie and I walked Sam to the bus stop for his first day of Kindergarten, which is odd since um, isn't he like 2?? Seriously, it's not right that someone that I can still vividly remember taking his first breaths, is now hoping up on a school bus (and not looking back once I might add). I'm so proud of him, but I still cried like a wee little girl last night. I feel like I'm going to blink and he'll be going to college. Oh no...stop me before I start singing portions of Fiddler on the Roof.

And Gracie...she went and turned one without my prior written consent! Seriously, these kids are killing me with the getting all grown up thing. But she had a blast, she's a big fan of the cake, and a bigger fan of mushing into her lovely long locks so much so that it takes three people to hold her down and scrub it out!

Sean has a new job that he loves, eventhough said new job starts at 5AM which means he has to get up at 3:30AM every morning. He works 12 hour days, but has his weekends off which he loves. However, he's doing a weeks worth of overnights this week and we're all very sad about it. Pathetic I know, but still..

And moi? Oh well, thanks for asking. I finally got licensed by the state to do home daycare. So far I have one little boy, who may not be with us for that much longer as he's a biter and his reign of terror might have to be terminated. I'm hoping I can line up a few more families and really make this work.

ANYWAY, I will try and pay more attention to my poor, deprived bloggy.