Put me in coach...

On the way to the soccer field, I was telling Sherri about a conversation that I had with a parent in kids church. He told me how much fun Eli is going to have and that I could even help coach. At this point Eli interrupted and said ,"Dad, we already have a head coach and another one". I don't think Eli wanted me to coach...little does he know, I don't know anything about soccer and I wouldn't coach because of it!

Ladies man...

Tonight we were doing homework with Eli and we were reading words with the short o sound. Sherri was giving Eli the two words like rock and rack. Eli got rock - like rock,paper,scissors. It got to hot and hit.Eli again got it right and added hot is what you say about girls.

Cha-Cha-Cha-Chia...

Eli started Soccer tonight. When Eli came off the field , he told us that the coach told them they get to name their team. He said with a roar," we're the Chia Tigers!" (Well, that's what it sounded like to me) I started thinking about tigers with green afros - kind of like the hair bear bunch cartoon. Thank goodness he was saying cheetah tigers. That's a better way to strike fear in your opponents I think.

Honey me?

Eli's definition of "honey".  Honey - verb or adj.  When you are married and about to kiss.

My parents are special because...

Today in children's church I was teaching about the 5th commandment - honor your father and mother. I started asking the kids what made their parents different and wonderful. I got all kinds of answers from - my mom kisses me to they buy me things. Eli wanted to add his opinion about his parents. Eli's answer... My parents are spies. Now the whole world knows our secret, other kids are going to be envious, and other parents will be jealous. That's why spies seldom confess to being spies!

First day of First Grade

Friday is Eli's first day of school in the 1st grade. He has great expectations from what he will learn and do all day to the toys that he will get to play with...Lord, I hope that Mrs. Flanagan is ready and prepared for an Eli! 


When Sherri went to pick up Eli from school, his teacher met Sherri and told her that we needed to have a conference. Maybe she sees the creativity and genius that IS Eli!

Slave trade

Tonight I made Eli clean up all of his toys. As he was cleaning, he complained that I was making him into my slave. I told him that he would be my slave if I made him clean up my stuff, but since it was his stuff, it was just cleaning up. He told me that slaves have to do what you tell them to do and they get spankings if they don't do it. Hmmm...I guess he's right in a way. I could get used to being called master!

GEICO saves you money

Eli spent the day with Michelle yesterday. When she brought him home, she said that Eli told her that I was making him save for auto insurance (his words). She said that she couldn't tell by the way he was talking about it, if he was paying for mine or paying for his. With the way car insurance keeps going up, I'm glad he's planning now. If I can get him to save for college...!

Scam Artist?

My day by noon: Eli woke me up with a bloody nose this morning. when I got up to help him, he had already been in the bathroom, making it look like a crime scene with blood EVERYWHERE. Then we left to paint at the school and Eli came up covered in red marker. He was Spiderman. (btw: washable markers are NOT all that washable!) Since I didn't get all of it off, Eli said that we could just tell people that it was blood - 'cause blood is cool for boys and people might want to help him and give him money.

wedgetarians...

We are trying to change Eli's eating habits- exchanging processed food with vegetables ("A"vegetable is more than he eats now). He ate 1 mashed potato and broccoli dinosaur bite. Going to bed, he told me that he doesn't want to be a wedgetarian anymore. I asked if he meant that he didn't want to be a vegetarian. He said yes. I then said that he would only eat vegetables if he were a vegetarian. His response:" I could be the vegetarian because he tried it and didn't like it - he would eat his kind of food and I could eat mine."

On the subject of snakes...

Eli has been watching the discovery channel. Today he was telling us about the danger of black mammas. We corrected him and told him that they were black mambas. He insisted that they were called black mammas and they even have a black daddy and they get married and have baby snakes called black babies. They all hide and jump out and bite you. They even change color. So my advice: beware!