Silencing the Pre-Pre teen

As we get closer to the gates of purgatory the start of Ashtons eleventh year of life, I've been noticing a definite shift in our house. According to my mother in law, I have about 3 months to live. She describles ten as the last tolerable year for boys unti I assume adulthood, she has never actually given me and end date for that.  I have been noticing a change in Ashton's personality lately. We have seen a SLIGHT shrink in irrational teenage girl meltdown, and a huge increase in sarcasm. I love some good sarcasm, but 7 hours of it a day is a little much, so I came up with house rule # 23:

 

For every day you are awesomely sarcastic

you will spend 10 minutes in the evening meditating, isnt that fantastic!

 

 

He found out he loves meditating, which to him means imagining himself as a wizard taco fighting whatever wizard tacos fight, and I enjoyed my quiet time.

Professional pouter

Lately, Syphr has been the king of pouting. He pouts for many reasons, some are justified pouting circumstances like when he can't have his way, and other times he pouts for silly reasons.  Here are a few pouting episodes over the last week that I find irresistable. He is just so good at it!  

 

Pouting becuase we forgot to put on his rain boots so he couldn't jump in the puddles:

 

Pouting because they don't allow Lightening McQueen matchbox cars on the pinewood derby track:

 

Pouting because I came to pick him up from his best friend Reagan's house: 

 

Pouting because he found a random water bottle and asked me if it was his. I told him no and tried to give him his cup, but he only heard no:

I'd like to say pouting doesn't work, but look at how cute he is! How could you not give in occasionally to this professional pouting master.

The Gift

In the card that Talan made at school for us was a really sweet poem. What he kept a well guarded secret until a few days after Christmas was that he had been working hard to memorize the poem at school. The sweetness of it plus his 5 year old speech impediment makes for a melting heart.