Conference & Cold

We had a great parent/teacher conference with Wm's teacher last night.  He is doing GREAT!  He had many more things in his "Commend your child on...." list rather than his "Encourage your child to..." list.  Really, the only things Wm needs to be "encouraged" to do are slow down in his work and stop talking so much.  Ha!  Sound familiar, Mimi?  I always got my worst marks in neatness and never shut up.  A chip off the 'ole block.  When we were walking home, I told Wm that I always needed to work on those same things and Steve said, "and I needed to work on the opposite."  Wm was like, "how is that possible?" and Steve goes, "well, I was always slow doing my work and never talked in class."  Wm was baffled that that could even be a thing.  So I reminded Wm that Daddy still got in trouble for not talking.  I am always nagging him to talk more.
**I don't know if you could call it "nagging" really since I am still working on just getting Steve to respond with a "yeah" if he hears that I have spoken. Such as...
Me: Don't forget to put out the trash tonight.
Steve: [silence]
Me: Don't forget to put out the trash tonight.
Steve: [silence]
Me: STEVE! DON'T FORGET TO PUT OUT THE TRASH TONIGHT!
Steve: I heard you both times!  Jeesh.
Me: Well, just NOD or something, man!  Throw me a frickin' bone!
Steve: [silence]
Me: You are on notice, sir.
Steve: [silence]

In other news, I am fighting off my first cold in a year.  Cory's Stay Healthy Plan has worked for a year, and I thought I had beaten the common cold...but it is clawing at the door.  I am re-doubling efforts and plan to fight the beast off!  I blame Wm, Germ Factory.