Our Family Blog 2005

Kole’s been a little difficult lately. 90% of the time he is such an easy and loving child that when he gets difficult to deal with- we find ourselves at a loss as to the best course of action. Lately we’ve been at “a loss” more often than we’d like. I’m sure it has to do with this time of year, I recall saying similar things in years past around Christmas but man.

So we’re in the car and the boys are driving each other crazy and that’s driving us crazy and I catch big kid misbehaving when I look back to see what the problem is about. He looks surprised at first but not sorry. I ask him why he would think that it is okay to behave so badly?

He pauses and looks smug.

We wait for a response.

I decide not to push so we figure the discussion is over, the point has been made.

Suddenly we hear Kole say, “Did you know I was on the cover of a magazine?”

We hold back laughter (this is the first time he has brought it up and it happened almost 6 months ago).

We acknowledged that yes we knew he was on the cover of a magazine and he responds “that means I’m famous”.

We're shaking with laughter but we don't respond. It's too much.