Funny man

Honestly, this boy makes me laugh so hard it hurts.

Today saw him achieving 3 objectives
1. To find the lost shoe - tick, job done
2. To organise replacement locker key - tick, job done
3. To hand in reply slip for parents evening - tick, job done.

Well done.

However, he left his coat somewhere in school.

His problem if it rains tomorrow morning then.

Tonight, I took my boys out for tea, purely out of sheer laziness, but also so we could sit down without cats, phones, computers and televisions and talk about our day. Lovely meal - curry at our favourite place, with the added bonus of our loyalty card paying off tonight and getting us ten quid off the bill. James entertained with ridiculous voices and some quite camp and ridiculous dancing - the performer is definitely emerging.

Then home, to complete a couple of homework tasks. One of them was to create a timeline of significant events since he was born. Blip came in handy for the last three years, as did the photo collection from prior to blip. I told him that he'd be grateful for all of the photos one day!

After homework, I asked James to attempt to be an Owl (probably best not to ask) and so he climbed on the table (having seen Corin mimic an owl by balancing on the fence outside earlier in the evening). I got a number of shots of him but this was my favourite. The others are here (down towards the bottom of the album)

Then came the excitement - he said "Mum, focus the camera on me and then close your eyes and take a photo when I say now". So I did. I fired off a burst of 8 shots. Imagine my surprise when I see that I have a sequence of him pulling a moony at me. I laughed and laughed, which set him off. Corin seemed quite unsurprised when we told him.

Subsequently, he has entertained me at Asda by being "Mr Indecisive" and at home by speaking in the manner of a 3 year old.

It's been one of those evenings where I am exceptionally grateful for having such a witty, intelligent and funny child.

We even managed, in the midst of all of this silliness, to have a mature conversation about what to do about his 'real' dad who he says he has now got fed up of in terms of his lack of effort to contact him. He has decided enough is enough, but with a maturity and forgiveness that I don't think I could muster - his decision includes "keeping the door open" so that if/when contact is made, he will accept it. However, we have agreed that he is old enough and mature enough that he needs to explain, if he gets the opportunity, how this whole situation makes him feel and that it is important that the message comes from him. This was all delivered/discussed in such a calm, matter of fact way that I was quite bowled over. He has a bigger heart than me because I would not be so balanced - I'd just be angry, hurt and unforgiving!