So said Mini #1 when looking at shapes with J tonight.
And then the Amazing happened.
Have you ever tried to put the bottom sheet on a large bed (queen or bigger)? Does it happen that every time you do it, you get it wrong first? You start putting on one corner and when you get to the next one you figure out that you've got the top/bottom on the sides, and so you have to rotate the thing 45 degrees?
Now, you're disqualified from this contest if your sheets are patterned in a way that you can tell just by looking at them which way is up. You know, like if your sheets are Batman and you know that Alfred needs to be right-side-up at the top so you never have that problem. I'm not talking to you.
I'm talking to those who have plain sheets, or sheets with an indistinguishable pattern on them. That dang bottom sheet is never, and I mean never, on right the first time.
That is until tonight.
Yes, I went to make the bed and fully expected the bottom sheet to pull the same trick it does every time, and was shocked and completely in awe when it fit on my first try.
I can hear you gasping. I know; I know! It's impossible, you say. But no, I'm telling the truth.
Oh, and the reason for changing the sheets. Mini #3 peed on the bed.
And about Mini #1. He started preschool today. We wanted to send him to the same preschool TJ sent her daughter, but the half hour drive for two and a half hours of school wasn't justifiable. So, we went with a place very near our place; and he blew up. The sweet people at the school said he was probably just dealing with the anxiety of this new experience, and whereas most kids just cry, he expressed his distaste for the situation with words, and they were all amazed at the vastness of his vocabulary and sentence structure, even if he was telling them that they had broken his heart and he would like to scratch them until they bleed.
Anyway, after a discussion with J and a very heartfelt prayer, he got the broken pieces of his heart back together and braved the school again, and absolutely loved it.
Here's to hoping he loves it again on Thursday.
8 years ago
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So many milestones... learning about parallelagrams, first pee on the bed, getting the sheet right the first time, and PRESCHOOL!!
I hope I never break his heart, I don't want him scratching me till I bleed.
That's true. All squares are parallelograms, but not all parallelograms are squares! I agree with Laurie. Lots of new milestones. If you turn a sheet 45 degrees, though, you'd have diagonal sheets. You meant 90, right? Hahaha, I just have to give you a hard time once in a while since you dealt it out to me more when I was a kid.
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