For Mother’s Day, G’s class assignment was to write a poem describing me with each letter of alphabet. He shared his poem with me, and I had the joy of reading it, while at work…. and busting out laughing. Here’s my poem.
ABC to my mom
A:awesome. You are very awesome to me.
B:Belligerent. You are very smart.
C:Casual. You do not get mad a lot
D:Dandy fine.youare very good.
E:excellent you are a excellent
F:fair. You are always fair to me and storm
G:glorious.you are very glorious to me
H:Hard-working.you are very hard working
I:laughable.you make good jokes
J:Jesting you are very humorous
K:Kempt you like to be neat
L:love i love you a lot
M:mom. You are mom only mom
N:nice you are nice
O:Obliging you are very helpful
P:Patient you wait for me and my bother
Q:quiet you can sneek up on me
R:Radiant you are very yoyful
S:smal you are not that tall
T:tea you like to drink tea
U:ultra you do a lot of thungs
V:very nice i do know that i alrdy did it but stiy you are nice
W:wine.you and dad like wine
X:x.x amsome you are doble amsome
Y:youthful.you are very young
Z:Zappy you have a lot of eangy.
My favorite part was “B”. I mean… I can absolutely BE belligerent, though I usually I try to keep that in check. It’s now a running joke around these here parts. I’ve proposed other “b” words…. like “brainy”, but he’s preferring to keep with belligerent. 🙂
Yes! This was a legitimate discussion in our home last night as I was putting the kids into bed. It was actually a semi-serious conversation.
It involved asking Alexa what happens, to which she responded “Sorry! I don’t know that one” and trying to actually get clarification on what exactly a wormhole WAS. We concluded that it would not only end up somewhere else in space, but potentially in a different time.
We then discussed exactly HOW you would poop into a wormhole since outer-space is so cold, your butt would freeze prior to being able to make it’s … ughmn… delivery. Griffin recommended that you poop in a bag first and then send it through space.
Yes. That’s right! My children are doing the inter-galactic equivalent of baggied poo on your door-step.
We resolved to have a conversation with my dad about this today… because who better to have a chat about space poo than a man that works in astrophysics?
BTW — his answer to what happens, btw? You’d start a poop-war. Less scientific… more political :p
PS. If either one of them ever applies to CalTech for school, I think their admission paper should be on this topic.
Storm’s birthday party this year was at Sports House… celebrated with GaGa Ball, soccer, pizza and donuts.
I legit wish I could explain GaGa ball. It’s like dodge-ball, in an enclosed arena, where you’re trying to be the last man standing, but can’t hit others directly. Storm requested it. Apparently Sports House introduced it over summer camps, but it’s not one of their standard activities. They used his party as a try to see if they can make it work as part of regular party bookings. Not sure what ultimately SH will decide there, but Storm’s guests seemed to enjoy it.
We have surpassed the age of 7 today, and the youngest human in our brood wakes up as an 8-yr old today. This kid has been calling out that he couldn’t wait ’till Thursday every day this week. For real — he didn’t even blink twice for Candy Debauchery Day (aka Halloween).
Storm,
Today you wake up 48″ tall and 50.7lb (though that’s with street-clothes on, so let’s take a pound off!). You continue to be a creative thinker and a happy soul. Please, don’t lose that. I love that I can find you singing to yourself while you are playing, or that you break out in a dance while randomly waiting in line at the store. PS — you’re a pretty good dancer! You’ve got a little mischief in ya’, but it’s (usually) in good nature, paired with good humor.
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What is your name?
Storm
What is your full name?
Storm.V.Rogers
Do you know what the V stands for?
Ya. Viktor!!!
What do you wish it stands for? ….Or if you like what it stands for that’s cool too.
Victorious!!
How old are you about to be?
8
What is you favorite color?
Red
Who is your best friend?
So.hard.to.choose.from. Owen
Who are your other friends that you would have chosen?
Owen, Ethan, Jacques, Darren, Owen, Mason, DeclanThat’s a lot of friendsExactlyThat’s great! I’m really happy to hear you have so many friends
What do you like to do with your friends?
Play.
What kind of play
Games
What kind of games
Level games
Level games?
Like you level up until this one monster and then you keep leveling up
How do you play that?
It’s like a fishing game
In person?
No, not with real fishing. We, we play with sticks… a bunch of jobs
Oh, with your sticks?
Ya. We,.. there’s one fisher, one mob, one villager, one trader… and… one…. a bunch of jobs
What is you favorite book?
Ah. Ok. I have a cross between two
Go ahead. Tell me both
Ughmn. Dragaon… it’s a series. Dragon Masters and…. Little Legends
Nice!
What is your favorite movie or TV show?
Pokemon
What is your favorite animal?
Animal. Animal. Animal. Depends. Does it have to be alive today?
No.
Ok. Uhmn. Then the Meg
Meg?
Yah. The Megalodon
Oh. OK!
What is your favorite food to eat?
Favorite food… waffles!!
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Cookies and cream
That is a really good flavor!
What is your favorite toy?
I don’t play with toys that much… other than Legos
What is your favorite outfit?
Outfit?
Ya, what’s your favorite thing to wear?
Sweatpants
Lol! Truer words have never been spoken
What song do you love?
So many!!! I’ll tell you the top three
I’d love the top three
“The middle”. “God’s plan”. “Friends”
Who is your biggest hero?
My mom!
Really?
Ya.
Oh my God. Why? Why am I your favorite hero?
You help me a lot.
Thank you! You’re making me cry
What are you really good at?
Reading. Reading. Writing and Art
Where do you wish you could go on vacation?
Ugh! So far though. Korea.
Korea? Really? Tell me why.
Because one of my friends lives there, and I’d like to see what it’s like there.
That’s kind of cool! I can show you some pictures if you want to see!
Yes!!!
What would you buy if you had $1000?
Nothing. I would save it up for a lot more
Ha! Ok. If you had 1M what would you buy?
A house. For shelter
A house for shelter? That’s actually a really good investment.
If you could have a wish, what would it be?
Can I have a house. [giggles]
No.
Can I have a pool?
Ok??? No. You can’t. But that can be your wish.
What do you want to do when you grow up?
Aw, man! Write a book
What do you think the book would be about?
Like a series of mythical creatures. I might even turn it into a show!
That sounds fun!
What do you hope to do before you turn (X+1)?
What do I hope to do? Surf!
Did you say Surf?
Ya.
That’s a pretty good goal!Go once? Or go more than once?
More than once!
Wow! That’s an aggressive goal
Give me a piece of advice…
For what?
For anything. Like tell me something wise
Don’t get drunk!
Lol! Yah. That’s a pretty good piece of advice. Alright we’re done now. Thanx, buddy!
I’m not a home-made Halloween Costume person — I love me a good online order instead! However, earlier in the summer I saw a video of a guy that made Transformer costumes for his kids, and my brain, in contrast, said: I wanna do that!
I spent a good amount of time in my youth loving paper castle making to a point I started creating my own forms. I now know there’s a whole universe of Papercrafting out there, but using said past skills (and a whole bunch of Amazon boxes I began storing), I set out to turn Storm into Bumblebee.
I’d say I did pretty good!
He enjoyed the school parade where he got to transform a few times. Meanwhile, Trick-or-Treating was semi-ok. He transformed for the first few houses and then realized it took too long, and just showing up expanded was good enough.
That costume’s enough to keep me “good” for a few years, I say!
