Toast

We had toast today with our soup. I made cheese toast for Josie and Parker, but Jack does not like cheese so I made his without. He didn't really want to eat it so I said, "Jack, Mama made yours without cheese. Don't you love Mama for remembering that you don't like cheese?"

Jack says, "Yes, I love you, but I would love you better if you put Jelly on it."

Oh my, he cracks me UP!!!

Letters

Letters apparently don't come easily for Jack. He has had a hard time, which means that I have had a hard time. But something happened last night while he slept, some synapses fired in the right combination or he just decided that he was going to tell me all the letters that he has learned over the last 9 weeks. Because this morning he is saying letters on books, magazines, the fridge, his flash cards and etc. It is amazing to see his mind work like this!

Jack's Quote of the Day

Richard and I have had some issues dealing with one of our children and yesterday were discussing how to solve the problem. We kept saying how many times we have told them and told them, you know, the usual things like how are we going to get them to understand.

This morning Richard took the kids and was driving to Moultrie while I am working on midterms (I am I promise, just a break). Jack spoke up out of the blue and said, "Daddy, you remember talking about ****(child's name) yesterday?" Richard said, "Yes, what about it?".
Jack said in his infinite wisdom, "I think he has yes and no mixed up."

Richard said it was so funny he had to call me right away and tell me. You tell me what kind of thought processes must a 4 year old have to think like that? Especially when the problem with the child did not involve "yes, you can or no, you can't", it involved making the right decisions.

"No, I won't. No, I'm not. No, I can't."

Is it possible to love and despise your child at the same time? Perhaps I should say his behavior. I have a child that was looking so forward to starting school, but now that he has, he WILL NOT cooperate. He will not try, he will not hold a pencil, he will not sit, he will not stand, he will not participate, he will not do anything other than what he has HIS mind on at the minute. I have even tried letting him just do any of the papers/projects that he wants at any given time, but he will not do it. I tried getting his sister to get him to do it. I don't think that I was that hardheaded and stuborn when I was little (maybe now I am, but not when I was 4). By the way, this is new behavior. He was once my agreeable child. Oh well! We press on and hope that he learns something.

Jack crackes me up!

Richard said, "Jack, do you know how much I love you?"

Jack answered,"Yes."

Richard said, "How do you know that?"

Jack matter factly answered, "Because I'm a genious."

The funny things kids say

This morning Jack said, "Mama, I love you mucher than you love me." How funny is that?

Jack's Birthday

Jack's 4th Birthday was Sunday. It was the first birthday where he was really excited and knew what he wanted: Power Rangers and Transformers! He had a BIG day.