Kevin’s always telling the boys he wants them to be “smarter than the average bear,” encouraging them not to settle for doing or being the bare minimum.
Tonight at dinner, Lucas said he wanted to be smarter than the average bear, and Atticus repeated it, too.
Then, Attie asked, “Who is the average bear?”
Not only did Lukie Luke lose one of his front teeth today in school, but he also had his second smiley-face day in a row!! Awesome news!!!
Notice the smiley his teacher Mr. Monge drew is missing a tooth, too.
The little red chest had his tooth in it. He said Mr. Monge gave it to him to put his tooth in, after it came all the way out during class.
Over there is Lucas favorite picture, “the mean look.” 😛
A full day of school, then homework and martial arts class at the Y. The boys were too pooped to play well before bedtime.
Lucas at a little less than 11 months…a little more than six years ago. 🙂
If you’re gonna run, make sure it’s in the right direction. 😉
Today was the birthday of two very important people to us: my son Cody, who was stillborn 12 years ago, and Kevin’s grandfather, Lawrence Simpson, who died in 1991.
In memory, we spent a while this evening at the two separate cemeteries, on opposite ends of the city, sharing flowers and memories and prayers.
Lucas wanted tape and some thick paper. He had an idea: “A tent!”
It may have been something Kevin said that spurred Lucas into making it for his favorite stuffed animal, Spider-Monkey; I’m not sure. But before long, he’d used up all the tape and set off for his room.
The “tent” fits well over his alarm clock that sits on the night stand between his and Attie’s beds now. (They had separate bedrooms in the old house, but wanted to share when we moved here.) And there’s plenty of room for Spider-Monkey to sleep underneath it.
No more falling off the bed in the middle of the night!
p.s. That’s not Spider-Monkey in the picture. That’s Lucas’ Loris, which he got at the NC Zoo a couple of years ago. (Confession: We’d never heard of a loris until we came home with it and googled pictures to find out what it might be. They should have had a tag!)
Here’s a picture from a few years ago of Lucas with Spider-Monkey. Kevin and I bought him at a rest area off the New Jersey turnpike on the way home from New York a few years ago for Lucas’ birthday. I used BeFunky.com for the “comic” filter.
I wish I had a picture of the sunset we saw on the way home from Susie’s today!
Instead, I have a snippet of conversation to remember:
Atticus: The clouds are orange! The clouds are orange!
Lucas: It’s like God’s drawing on the sky!
Atticus: God’s drawing the clouds orange!
“Mommy, if I could be president, I would make it a law that nobody could kill any more babies.”
~Lucas Dalton, age 7