Dad, why are you so slow?

Day Five of the Daddy Chronicles:

Day 5 started at 5:22 – another two minutes!  This morning I accomplished a feat not soon to be repeated.  I got all the kids up, dressed, fed, and made it to Heart of a Child at exactly 8:00, though I still had on the same pair of underwear I was wearing the day before.  8:00 was a very important time, because that’s when the bus left to go on the field trip to The Little Farmer.  Sure enough, when we got to Heart of  Child, there was the bus, and everyone was getting on board.  When informed of this Isaiah asked in consternation, “Dad, why are you so slow?”  To which I responded with fits of laughter.

Of course Jillian didn’t go on the field trip, but she wasn’t sad.  She got to spend the day taking endless rides in her favorite swing and getting a spa treatment.  Lately Jillian has had some major cradle cap.  Her head was so scaly, she was starting to look like a lizard.  So, I have to give kudos to Ms. Wendy at Heart of a Child for clearing it up with a two day spa treatment that must have included steel wool. 

After dinner, I was flipping through the channels on TV, when Isaiah blurted out “hey a corvette!”  Sure enough, their was a show on the National Geographic channel about how corvette’s are manufactured.  The boys thought that was pretty cool, so we watched it.  Afterword, Isaiah noted “when I grow up, I want to make corvettes.” 

Tonight after putting Jillian down for one of her cat naps, I went to tuck in Harrison (Isaiah was fast asleep).  When I laid down next to him, he casually noted that “Wally has a laser.”  Wally…?  Who’s this Wally, and what does he dowith his laser?  So, I asked “who’s Wally?”  Harrison looked at me incredulously, and replied “Wally!” with a tone that insinuated I was an idiot for not knowing who Wally was.  Then he went on to say that “Eve has a gun.  Eve is a girl.  She has blue eyes.”  I was confused and concerned.  It sounded like Bonnie and Clyde reincarnate.  But then it occurred to me.  He was talking about WALL-E. 

Jillian burps like a man!  Meredith should be proud.

We all miss Mommy, especially me.  We can’t wait to see her when she comes home tomorrow.