So, now that Jake has lost a tooth, he's moved on to his teenage years...
On the way home from drawing class this afternoon, Jake told me about his girlfriend. Anyone remember at the beginning of the school year the girl whose name rhymes with Annie's? Well, she says she loves Jake now. He says he's not sure if he loves her yet, but he may later. And today she kissed him five times on the cheek at naptime. I told him that I think she's cute, and he said, "Don't tell the Sonic team. They don't like girls." The "Sonic team" is his group of friends at school who play Sonic the Hedgehog all through recess. I told him that eventually they'd all start to like girls too (or maybe some of them will like boys, but this wasn't the time for that conversation). His girlfriend, incidentally, is the only girl on the Sonic team, but she's just "Amy," who apparently just sits around waiting to be rescued. By boys who don't like girls... Anyway, she's also on the "Cheetah Girls" team. Very well-rounded.
So, don't tell the Sonic team. Jake has a girlfriend. It won't be long before she'll be moving her towel over to his at naptime and sitting with him at lunch...
My son has also developed quite a...global sense of self. He's just recently started earning an allowance. In order to earn his allowance, he has to keep his room clean, make his bed, wash windows a couple of times a week (something he enjoys doing!), put away his own laundry, and empty small trashcans into the big one in the kitchen. Seems like a lot when I write it down, but really, I'm pretty easy on him. As long as he keeps his room clean and makes his bed, the rest can fall by the wayside.
At any rate, after having two friends over for different playdates this week, his room is a wreck. I told him this afternoon that if his room stayed the way it is, he wouldn't get his allowance on Sunday. He said, "I'll skip it this week."
I said, "Okay, but that means you won't get your money."
"It's not about the money, Mommy."
"Oh? What's it about?"
"It's about Life."
Huh. And here I always thought he would be a pennypincher... Instead he's headed down the poor philosopher path...
On the way home from drawing class this afternoon, Jake told me about his girlfriend. Anyone remember at the beginning of the school year the girl whose name rhymes with Annie's? Well, she says she loves Jake now. He says he's not sure if he loves her yet, but he may later. And today she kissed him five times on the cheek at naptime. I told him that I think she's cute, and he said, "Don't tell the Sonic team. They don't like girls." The "Sonic team" is his group of friends at school who play Sonic the Hedgehog all through recess. I told him that eventually they'd all start to like girls too (or maybe some of them will like boys, but this wasn't the time for that conversation). His girlfriend, incidentally, is the only girl on the Sonic team, but she's just "Amy," who apparently just sits around waiting to be rescued. By boys who don't like girls... Anyway, she's also on the "Cheetah Girls" team. Very well-rounded.
So, don't tell the Sonic team. Jake has a girlfriend. It won't be long before she'll be moving her towel over to his at naptime and sitting with him at lunch...
My son has also developed quite a...global sense of self. He's just recently started earning an allowance. In order to earn his allowance, he has to keep his room clean, make his bed, wash windows a couple of times a week (something he enjoys doing!), put away his own laundry, and empty small trashcans into the big one in the kitchen. Seems like a lot when I write it down, but really, I'm pretty easy on him. As long as he keeps his room clean and makes his bed, the rest can fall by the wayside.
At any rate, after having two friends over for different playdates this week, his room is a wreck. I told him this afternoon that if his room stayed the way it is, he wouldn't get his allowance on Sunday. He said, "I'll skip it this week."
I said, "Okay, but that means you won't get your money."
"It's not about the money, Mommy."
"Oh? What's it about?"
"It's about Life."
Huh. And here I always thought he would be a pennypincher... Instead he's headed down the poor philosopher path...
4 Comments:
I hope Jake's girlfriend is a good girl, worthy of his affection :)
I'll have to say that Jake is doing much better than my girls about his allowance. They are just greedy, LOL.
LOL..He is so cute! No wonder he already has the girls following him around. I like his philosophy about cleaning!
I'll have to check in some boxes of old pictures stored in the attic, but I think there is substantial photographic evidence showing the condition of your room across a host of childhood years. Not a pretty sight, as I recall. So, doesn't your conscience bother you for busting that boy for a few out-of-place toys? :-) [You see, this is the true joy of being a GP, getting to watch your own kids struggle against someone who is just like they were. Ha, ha, ha] Love you all!
I move that the last comment be stricken from the record.
(And as a matter of fact, the condition of my room even today would mean that I wouldn't earn my allowance according to my standards. But I'm the mommy. So there.)
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