next round on us...

I've been finding out that our Nate likes to inform everyone (his teachers, his friends, their parents, the other mother helpers, really, anyone who will listen...) the going-ons of our house... and the child has a terrific memory, so the situation is not looking good. I found this out because Nate came home from school last tuesday with his backpack FULL of hershey's kisses. The teachers informed me that the mother helper felt sorry for him because he gave her a sad story about Ben leaving for Ecuador and me saying, "I don't know what we're going to do without your daddy...".

A little scary that our privacy is being breached by a four-year old, but so far nothing we can't handle...

Well, to celebrate Ben's homecoming from Ecuador I bought some of his favorite IBC Cream Soda. We are not soda drinkers, but there's something about a cold IBC from a bottle... So last night Ben was drinking one of these sweet IBCs and thought maybe Nate (who wont touch soda because he claims it's too spicy) would want to give soda a second chance. Nate took a few precautionary sips out of Ben's bottle and decided that despite it's "spiciness" he might like a small cup of his own. He proceeded to take a few more sips and then placed the remainder, as is his habit, back in the fridge to "save for later".

"Later" happened to come this morning. As I was trying to get everyone breakfast I hear Nate's voice from the fridge say, "Mommy, do you know that my beer doesn't taste as spicy when all the bubbles are gone?" (Hey, when you can't read, cream soda and beer are one in the same.)

Forget parent of the year award- we are definitely NOT going to fare well when Nate tells his teachers that we're supplying him with beer...