First Weeks of Kindergarten

A's been going to kindergarten.

Recent kindergarten adventures:

Snoring during nap time.

Saying that he saw Zachary Taylor coming back from the White House on his horse during an eye exam (there was a horse on the eye chart).

Changing the words to a song about a baby doll from sweet caring ones to mean ones (probably using the Five Words Most Amusing to Five Year Old Boys: fart, butt, wiener, poop, & vomit).

Telling various school staff members all about the presidents (with a focus on their horrible demises).

Learning the entire Star Wars (cartoon) pantheon in spite of the fact that A) we don't have a television and B) Star Wars is something we're not going to show him until he's twelve.

Removing his socks and hiding them somewhere on the school grounds (yes, they came back in a big plastic bag).

Discovering The Best Thing Ever: Hot Lunch. Who knew?

Dental Halloween Hijinx

Scene: Grandma J and Grandpa H's house. A, who has been eating an apple, has made the discovery that one of his lower incisors is very loose.

J (leading A upstairs to phone relatives): "Come on, A; we should call Grandma M."

A (following J through lower hallway to stairs): "This would be a great haunted house."

J (reaching the stairs): "Yeah; Aunt J and I used to decorate this house to be haunted during Halloween."

A (finger in mouth): "J! J! I've got something to show you." (Points at stairs)

J: "What?"

A: "Look! Blood!"

J looks down at a small puddle of saliva and blood on one of the stairs.

A (proudly): "I made a mysterious blood stain [just like Oscar Wilde's Canterville Ghost]!"

J (running upstairs to get a wet cloth): Uh, A; make sure you stay off the carpet and don't touch any furniture, OK ?"