I am sure there are many moms who have a child like Heber, but after having 4 boys I would have thought they got easier . . . WRONG!! Heber beats to his own beat (usually on his brothers heads). He is so independent and does not have that filter that most do that stops every thought from coming spilling out of their mouths. He is so excited to be in school. He can't wait to go, but you would never know it by the way he gets dressed. He gets side tracked and there have been many times I have gone up to his room sure that he is getting dressed to find that he has discovered a toy he forgot he had and just had to play with it . . . in his underwear.
This used to completely freak out the neighbor boy that carpooled with us and he would take it upon himself to teach Heber the value of modesty, Heber just usually told him to SHUT-UP or some other form of thanks, but no thanks.
Anyway after fighting this battle everyday and having him have to drive to school getting dressed and putting shoes on in the car I was done . . . putting his shoes on in the parking lot I explained in not so calm terms how irritated I was . . . "this is awful, everyday we have the same battle, you are going to be grounded, I am taking away all your toys, everyone else can get dressed, your on my last nerve" . . . you get the picture. Our school does school breakfast as well as school lunch . . . so my last tirade was "AND YOU ARE GOING TO MISS BREAKFAST" without missing a beat he jumped up, grabbed his backpack and said "you know what else I am going to miss? . . . YOU" and gave me a big hug and kiss and ran off only looking back to say "I love you mom, see you at 12 o'clock".
Needless to say I have some repenting to do.
