Think BACON, loads and loads of BACON, or Roasted Pig

O.k....my faithful bunch of bloggy stalkers.  Most of you already follow my buddy Travis over at I Like to Fish but for those of you who don't, go check him out today.  We had a bonfire, we roasted a pig, and we had some fun in honor of Travis' 100th Blog Post.

My HERO in blogland with the grown-up blog, that has a real following, not like my poor pathetic excuse for a following(not that I don't love you all, I do, I'm just saying, she is REALLY popular, where I just pretend to be popular and try to fit in, and if you don't believe me just read all the comments Ed left about me) Cheesecake over at Mad Boastings of a Cheapskate Mom even made a special button for the occasion and everything.  She is so cool.... *swoon* I think I have a girl crush on her!  Shh.....it's our little secret.

 

I wrote a poem for the Roast, that was pretty darn creative, if I do say so myself.  But, of course, I was upstaged by Ed, and all the other "cool" kids.

Notice:  If you are dull, boring, vapid, and simply lack a sense of humor do not visit the aforementioned Roast.  If you are faint of heart, a prude, dislike four letter words, or are in any way shape or form offended easily perhaps you should not visit Travis either.  Actually, if any of those last several things describe you, why exactly do you follow me?

I am easily persuaded to write poetry for others.  All Travis had to do was ask, however, there was a promise of awards, and what can I say, I will do anything to fit in with the cool kids with the awesome blogs.  Check out my Awesome Award of Awesomeness!

 

Thanks TRAVIS!  Love!

Anyshakes, make sure if you didn't already check out my Memoir Monday post you do and leave some love.  I need it after all the mean stuff Ed said about me today.  I mean Travis asked, but all I did was agree to participate.  He(Travis) has thick skin, me, I have fragile girlie-girl sensibilities.  I have feelings.  I can't take it.  *pout* *stomp foot* *sniff* *tears* *huff* *puff* *more tears*

(Rolling on floor laughing that you were actually buying that  load of steaming horse shit) 

That is all!

Think I need to brush up on some Science facts

Many of you know Kamden as my little mini-me.  He's dramatic, we often call him the drama queen around the house.  My mom says I was just as over the top when I was little.  This past week I had a couple of meetings at his school.  He is bored in class, and ADD and boredom are not really the recipe for a successful 2nd grade class room.  His teacher, the gifted teacher and I met to come together on an enrichment program for Kamden during class that will both stimulate his little smart self and help to remove some of the boredom disruption.

Kamden has been expressing his boredom every afternoon when I ask about his day.  He told me "we are doing baby math" and "Mom, we are not reviewing, we have been in school for four, f-o-u-r, weeks, it's ridiculous" along with "these spelling words only have three letters, they are NOT EVEN SIGHT WORDS."  I told you he has a flair for the dramatic.

So on Friday night, Kenna took Kooper and Michael on a brothers night out with Sissy.  They went to Taco Bell and then on to Cosmic Bowling.  They don't let you use the bumper guards during cosmic bowling so that meant Kamden wouldn't be able to bowl.  So, instead Kamden got a date night with Mom and Dad.  We decided to go out to dinner and to Barnes & Noble.  It is one of Kam's and my favorite places.  He was thrilled because we needed some more books for the series he is reading right now.

The closest Barnes & Noble to our home is a good 45 minutes without traffic.  We left the house pretty early so we decided to go there first.  On the way Kamden was more than his normal Chatty Cathy self.  Yes, I often call him Chatty Cathy, cause seriously he talks more than any little girl I have ever met.  AND that is saying something.  Kenna used to talk non-stop, or at least I thought so until Kamden started speaking.  The hubby jokes often that he is still mad that I encouraged Kamden to speak. (Seriously folks, he jokes, don't send me nasty emails, or I will send Kamden to visit for a week.)  So, on the drive Mr. Loquacious starts rambling out what I thought were non-sense questions.  They all had a science feel to them, but many of them were straight up SCIENCE questions.  And they were all over the map, just one after the next.  As quick as he could get one out he was asking another.  Hubs and I exchanged glances a couple of times.  Then Kamden started waiting for my answers and directing the questions to me specifically.  I would answer and get this response, "That would be correct."  Hubs says to me quietly, "He knows all the answers, he is making sure YOU do."

We stopped at a long light and I turned around in my seat.  "Kamden, how do you know all this stuff?"  His reply, serious as he could possibly muster, "I have this Science book at school, I get bored and I flip through it and read it.  It has a little over 400 pages."  OMG!  Crazy right?

So I guess I will be brushing up on my Science.  I will probably have to brush up on quite a few things to keep up with Chatty.

Anyhoo, we enjoyed our trip to B&N.  We picked up some books in his series, My Weird School Series by Dan Gutman, and we also picked up some poetry books for kids.  I am sooooooo excited about this.  Our last visit Kamden and I sat and read Edgar Allen Poe for quite a bit.  This trip he asked to get the book and Emily Dickinson too.  Before we left the store he made Dad sit and listen to "The Lake" and "Annabell Lee".  The kid is truly just like his mommy!  I loved spending the evening with my hubby and my baby boy reading.