Funny Stuff

-Josh: "It is pretty obvious that I might or might not get the flu."

-Josh had baseball tryouts on Wednesday.  It went from 5pm until 7pm.  They're in 3rd grade for Pete's sake!!  He said he did good.  His favorite part was the sliding.  Now we have to wait for the coach to call and tell us what team he's on.

-Josh came home with this self-confidence activity sheet that he filled out at school:

1. Three things I do well....homework, triotus, good boy (I think it's suppose to be tryouts)
2. Three positive characteristics I have....brave, fredly, fun
3. Something I have done recently that I am proud of....play, help, make my bed (I said "play?!" and he just grinned at me)

-Love Notes Activity Sheet:

Dear Self,
     ill chri to help have fun to play with my coson collen and help out my mom after shool.
                                  Love,  me

-Collin came up for a visit and Josh continues to call him colon.

-When I told Josh that Joshua Monsivais was going to Mexico on his mission he said "yeah, that makes sense."
"Why?" I asked.
"Well, because you guys are like kind of from there" he replied with a 'duh mom' kind of attitude.

Grapes

Josh came home from school yesterday wearing this hat.

He was so excited that he was able to 'work' in the kitchen at lunch and that he got FREE school lunch!  He talked about how crazy it was that no one recognized him when he was wearing that hat.  I was about to argue but then I remembered that Gideon had even barked at him when he saw him coming up the walk so...  He said that he got to hand out the roll that came with the chicken nuggets and that he got to have 9 nuggets instead of just 4 because they had extra.  He chattered for a good 10 minutes about how wonderful it was.
He then asked me for something to eat saying "even though I ate school lunch, I'm still hungry."  Ok.  So I told him to get some grapes and to eat those while he worked on his homework.  He informed me that he couldn't do both of those things at the same time because he was going to do something special with his grapes.  Great.  He put his grapes in a bowl, then filled it with water and proceeded to squish and rip all the grapes.  He ate the outside and left the very middle floating in the bowl.

During this process he said "I'm ripping all its guts out because it's so satisfying.  No one can say no to this!"

When he was done he had a bowl of water with little bits of floating grape.  He then asked "Mom, do you want to try some?  It's really good."
"Mmmm, thanks, but no."
"Why not mom?  You like grapes."
"Yeah, but I don't want any right now."
"Well, don't you want to try it?"
"Honestly?  No."
"Why wont you even try it?"
"First off, I'm pretty sure you didn't wash your hands after you got home from school."
"Ohhh.  So if I wash my hands, you'll try it?"
"Mmmm, nope.  Second off, it doesn't look good at all and I don't think it's going to taste all that great either."
He kept trying to convince me and I wouldn't give in.  Finally, he gave up and drank a little bit and then said "Mom, I think you're always right."
"Why?" (Not that he got it wrong, I just like to hear why I'm right)
"Because it doesn't taste that great.  I think I'm done." He then went and dumped the rest down the sink.