Big Kid Decisions

We woke up this morning to nature's majesty hanging out in our backyard:

Deer snoozing under our tree!

Schroeder reeeeally wanted to go out and play with the deer. He spent his morning like this:

Not a giant mouse, Schroeder.

I love that we are in an "urban neighborhood," but we have all kinds of wildlife hanging around! I saw a fox the other day!! And, also, I love that I just read an article about how The Ville has become so coveted that not only are houses selling before the "For Sale" sign even goes up, but there are bidding wars on nearly every house! So real estate agents in The Ville are telling buyers to just come out with their "highest and best offer" right out of the gate and most houses are selling for ABOVE list price! We're sitting on a gold mine! There are about 4 houses on our street that have had multiple offers before the listing is even active. Wheeee!!

Wm is done with school, but Summer Clubhouse doesn't start until Monday. So he decided to tag along to work with me today. He loves hanging out in "his" office next door. I don't have the heart to tell him that my student assistant is showing up soon and she believes that that is her office. I sense a turf war brewing.

Wm loves my office because it has "great wifi"

I told him I will take him to Whole Foods for lunch and he can get a piece of pizza and a cookie. He is exceedingly pleased with this plan.

Wm told me last night that he has made some decisions, now that he is a 4th grader. Here are the things he is going to start doing right away now that he is a Big Kid:

1. He will go to sleep without anyone else upstairs and get his own bedtime water, if needed.

2. He will "stop whining about death."

3. He will help me cook dinner and eat what everyone else is eating, as it is prepared.

I am interested to see how his new plan goes. This was a surprise and completely Wm-driven. He may have had an ulterior motive, because he finished by saying, "now that I am in 4th grade, and made these decisions, I feel like I should have a later bedtime." His current bedtime is 8:30pm. I told him, during the summer, he can stay up until 9pm. But, once school starts, we will have to look at how things are rolling and possibly adjust to 8:45pm. He was happy with that and an agreement was reached.

Wm also said that, starting next school year, he is going to make and pack his own lunch! We'll see how that goes!