I arrived at school to pick up the boys today. As per the norm, I stopped in Marc's classroom first. I walked in and the first thing he says to me is, "I snuck a toy in school today!" My first thought is: how in the world did you get it past me? And my second thought: is why in the world would you tell on yourself?
At that point, I was really trying to figure out how all of this happened without me knowing about it. I asked Marc where the toy was right then and he ran over to his backpack in his cubby. Then, it hit me. That sneaky little booger casually brought his backpack in to school today acting like it was no big deal. The backpack has stayed at school all year in case of an accident and we brought it home the other day so his teachers could deep clean his classroom. I vaguely remember Marc telling me we needed to take his backpack back to school "in case he had an accident" and me thinking "why would you have an accident?"
Clearly it didn't seem like a big deal because my brain continued on whatever track it was on and thought nothing more of it. Until precisely 4:27pm this afternoon. His teacher explained that she was having a hard time figuring out how he could have worked anything past me (which honestly made me feel like a pretty good mom!) and said that he pulled the miniature Harley motorcycle out of his backpack right before lunch. And to make things worse (if you consider this bad), he thought he was hilarious!
After getting over my complete shock at his craftiness (courtesy of his very skilled father), I managed to have a discussion about why there are rules about bringing toys to school and what it means to break rules on purpose. He was able to repeat back to me the basics of the conversation and then bounced away like nothing ever happened on our way to pick up brother (who, by the way, has pink eye-again!) I'm thinking another conversation is in need before we leave for school in the morning...
Countdowns:
Barcelona: 8 days!
Dad comes home on leave: 50ish days!
May God bless you and keep you!
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