Tuesday March 3rd---HANDY MANNY

As Gates was sitting and eatting breakfast before school he was playing with the remote, pushing every button and laughing at the response the TV made. I said "you're going to break the remote and then we won't be able to watch TV at all". He says so confidently "don't worry mom Handy Manny will fix it". Of course I giggled at his response and then he says "well, how would he get here anyway?" I explained that he is a cartoon character and can't come out of the TV, but I don't think I convinced him. Later he told me he knew Handy Manny could and would fix anything, because he knows how to do everything:)

When I was a Boy?

Gates was playing with his nerf guns earlier, shooting the dogs, the walls, the doors and anything that got in his way. He stopped to take a break for a minute and put his guns on the counter, I was putting dishes away and was warned NOT to touch his guns! I assured him I wouldn't do such a thing. He wanted to know if when I was a little boy did I have guns like his? I said, "buddy I wasn't ever a boy" he didn't buy that answer for one moment. "Oh yes you were mom"! "No buddy I really wasn't". This went on and on for a while before he finally said "I was the grown up then mom and you were a little boy I saw you.." How do you dispute this? There was absolutely no way I could convince him otherwise so I just decided to go with it. Then I said "Gates when I was a little boy I did have guns like that" he looked at me really strange and said "mom you were never a BOY you have always been my mom and moms are girls!!!" UGH--so you just can't win no matter what you do.. I decided to end that conversation there, after all I was a girl again:)

New Wave Swim Meet

Gunnar had her first swim meet yesterday as part of the Wave swim team. She did awesome. It was an EARLY morning for us and we typically don't do well with mornings, but we managed to all wake up in a good mood. We had to be at the pool at 8am, so we left our house at 720ish to make it on time. And for once we actaully were on time--for some reason I struggle with that aspect of life.(I'm working on it)...

Gunnar swam four events: freestyle, back stroke, breast stroke and butterfly and at the end was in a freestyle relay. She WON butterfly and came in second in all her other races. She was a swimming machine. She was so cute out there just kickin away. She has shown tons of improvement, so I think this year round thing will pay off for her. She has four girl friends that are in her same group so that definately helps to motivate her to go to practice and do her best. She is, as we all know a social bug. She loves to be with her friends!! As for now she seems to be enjoying it, we never know from one day to the next what she is going to want to do, but we support that part of her character and are happy to let her explore everything. We will always big her biggest cheerleaders!