Did That Really Just Happen?

On Tuesday morning before school, Colton asked if he could stay home all day from school and just play the WII.  I said no because he needed to go to school.  He said ok and went about his morning routine to get ready for school.  He had only been at school one hour and the phone rang and it was the Secretary from the school.   She said that Colton felt sick and felt like he was going to throw up.  I asked if she really thought he was sick and she said yes you need to come pick him up.  When I get Colton in the car, I ask him if he is really sick or if he just didn't want to go to school today.  He starts to cry and tells me that I never believe him.  I keep asking questions trying to figure out why he didn't want to stay at school.  He tells me that his stomach kind of hurts but he thinks he just needs to go to the bathroom.  We get home and he runs in the house and is jumping around acting perfectly fine.  He goes to the bathroom and runs out and says he feels fine.  Grrrr, I knew that he just didn't want to be at school.  I call Greg and he says he is coming home right now and taking him right back to school.  I am laughing and tell Greg that I faked sick quite a bit when I was going to school and to just give Colton the day off.  For some reason, he must have needed it because he doesn't do things like this.  If you know Colton at all, this is not his personality.  Colton stayed home the rest of the day, but every time Greg would walk into the house he would say -Hi faker how are you doing?Colton soon learned that it wasn't so fun staying home from school because he got invited to play after school and was so sad that he couldn't play.  Hopefully this doesn't happen again any time soon.  

We call Crew "The Tornado" because he never wants to play with toys and just gets into everything.  My house always looks so messy because Crew is constantly getting into messes and getting everything out.  Yesterday, I was in my room and I hear and huge crash.  I don't hear him crying, but I still run to find out what that noise was.  He is just sitting on the floor in the doorway of the office holding a cord.  I look and sure enough, my $130.00 lamp is sitting on the floor completely broken.  My stomach just sinks, I am so mad because the lamp was so expensive.  I lightly spank his bum all the while my neighbor sees me do this through our glass front door.  I am feeling really stupid by now.  Anyways, I put Crew in his bed and try to calm down.  I am thankful that the lamp didn't land on his head.  He really would have been hurt.  Greg fixed the lamp so it looks great, but no longer works.  After Crew's nap I go into his room and he has pulled his quilt off the wall.  I think to myself, I am glad it didn't fall on him and suffocate him while he was sleeping.  MY mom than calls me and tells me about all my blessings I have received today.  I did receive a blessing that Crew was not hurt, but on days like this I have to keep telling myself I love being a stay at home Mom.