Me: Hey, I just found this in your bag. Did you make this at school?
B: Yeah. It’s for you.
Me: Thank you!
Me: <laughing> I’m #4?
B: Yeah. I was trying to do a "seben" but I couldn’t. [Note the two upside down sevens]

It’s okay though. Last night as I was ushering him to the car to go to my mom’s for bed (I worked at 6 a.m. this morning), he was walking along beside me eating a freezie and looking all over - the dirt, ant hills, the sky. Then he said "Beautiful!" with a little bit of awe in his voice. I asked him what was he talking about? What was beautiful? His answer? "You are." Awwwwwwwww!! The little monkey bum. That is the first time he’s ever said anything like that so I was a little touched.

We’ve had a few small issues tonight but all in all it wasn’t too bad. The little booger is sleeping soundly now, as innocent as anything. And I’m headed to bed myself. I work again tomorrow at 6 (my mom is coming over here in the morning to take him to daycare) and I’m beat. It seems strange that painting some of the house would carry over into today but that’s all I can think it would be. Even though we weren’t in the sun at all, we were outside from 10 until 2:30 and it was breezy.

So this #4 mom is headed to the shower and then to bed. Hopefully it won’t take me too long to work my way up to #1. In the meantime, being #4 works for me.

* I know that this post stretches the limits of the WFMW theme. There really isn’t a tip or trick to be found here. You’ll have to head over to We Are THAT Family for those.