Seven days - Seven new things I've learned..

How fortunate am I that my family teaches me something new every day? This last week has not been the exception!!

Things I have learned:

#1 - When your son turns 7 you are no longer the center of his world! He will sometimes be downright embarrassed of you. When you show up on field day this might be the only picture you get because he is way to cool to pose in front of friends but later that night he might tell you thanks for coming just to see how cool he was!

#2 - When you have been a blogger for three years your "camera shy in front of friends kid" will let you take his picture with his medals he earned doing accelerated reading and then he will tell you what to say about him on the blog. In his own words, "this kid has so many medals, how many will he get?"

#3 - You should not be surprised when you find your two year old stealing chocolate chips out of the freezer and filling the salsa bowl to the brim. You especially should not be surprised when you find him hiding behind the couch with his secret stash later in the day. I have no idea where he learned this from?

#4 - On hot summer days when kids are bored - call in recruitments it makes for fun and the mess that is made is totally worth the 4 hours of fun time had by all! Cousins make everything better.

#5 - When you drag your family to "Mid Evil Days", they will like this:

But they won't like this: (Layla might have if she would have been awake)!

#6 - I learned that a little monster that can give looks like this:

Finds it his personal responsibility to be sweet when needed and take care of this! He actually looks like he is taking it very seriously.

#7 - This next little one has taught me many lessons this last week! Although the one I choose to remember is that even when you are sleep deprived and don't get anything on the list done it is all worth it when you look at this!