Last night I was watching my niece and nephew for my sister who had a late business meeting with out of town clients. My children and these children don’t usually get along very well, but my sister and I get along and I was trying to help her out. They complained when I told them that we were watching them for the evening, but I lectured them for all of 2 minutes and they promised me that they would be kind and treat them how they would like to be treated. I was geared up for an evening of fighting and slamming doors and ‘don’t touch my stuff!’ but was pleasantly surprised when all four of them got along pretty well.
Dinner time came around and seeing as my husband was out of pancakes and the buttermilk was about to go bad I decided that breakfast was on the menu. Kids were all kinds of okay with that. Sitting down at the table the kids starting talking about the remarkable things that happen to them at school. Logan started off by saying that there was this one boy who was mean and he was throwing woodchips at his back and Logan told him to stop. Boy did not- threw them again and smiled. Logan said to stop or he was going to tell. Boy smiled bigger and kept throwing them. Logan walked away. (I am a proud mama)
Then I hear this “oh, yeah…” coming from Cousin’s mouth. She proceeds to tell Logan about this boy at her school who chases her everyday and she always tells him to stop, but he never does. He was chasing all the girls around and Cousin got tired of it so she told on him and he got detention for being mean.
Hmmmm… Detention for chasing girls? Are they giving out detention for jumping rope too? I am just glad that Logan does not attend this school. (I may have left out a small part about Cousin having the most extensive imagination of any other child that I know- and I know a lot!)
Logan chimes in with his “OH, YEAH!” getting louder and more listen-to-this tone of voice. He tells of a story of the 2 bullies in his grade, one of them wanted to play with him and he was kind of nervous about playing with the bully, but he decided that he needed to be nice to everyone (again, proud mama) so he played with him for a minute. Then a few days later said bully got mad at one of the teachers and kicked the outside door so hard that it shattered the glass inside!!! (this actually did happen) He still isn’t allowed back at school.
“OOOOH, YEAHHHHHH!!!” Chimes in Cousin and goes on to say that one day her bully at school was chasing her friend around with a fake spider and kept on putting it on her friends shoulder and her friend would scream. Cousin would chase the boy and then go back to console her frazzled friend and then boy would do it again and again.
THEN… he found a real spider. IT WAS A TARANTULA!!!! And he was putting it on her friends, but Cousin wasn’t even scared, she was getting mad because he was teasing her friends. So she grabbed the spider and stomped on it and killed it. And the boy cried because the spider was his and he wanted to keep it. And so he told. But Cousin ran away and then recess was over so she didn’t get in trouble.
THEN… The next day he brought his snake and he hid it in his desk and was feeding it paper and pencil shavings to keep it in there and then at recess he took it outside. And Cousin saw it and IT WAS A RATTLE SNAKE AND IT HAD VENOM!!!!!!!!! But Cousin still wasn’t scared, all the other girls were screaming and running around and hiding from the snake charming bully. Cousin knew she had to take action, and how! She said that she was going to chase him to death so he better run!! He was running, the snake was rattling, Cousin was chasing. Then the boy tripped and he fell and the snake went flying into the air and everyone around saw it and they were running and screaming- even the recess monitor!! Cousin had to be quick! She grabbed the snake with two hands and she ripped it in half and killed it! BUT not before it bit her on the hand! She had to suck out the venom with her mouth and it was gross!!! Then the boy cried again (this boy is turning out to be a really wimpy bully) and went and told the recess monitor. And Cousin tried to run, but she was weak from the sucking of the venom, so she got caught this time. The recess monitor said that she saw the whole thing.
And Cousin got a warning.
Then I turned from my pancake making and looked at Logan’s reaction to such a story. He was pretty pale and looking at Cousin with that kind of look that says “Holy cow!! You only got a warning!?!?!” And then “WOOOOAAAAHH!!!!” Came out of the boys mouth.
“Oh, Yeah” contest done. Cousin wins.
After all, it was a totally true story according to the two of them.
What? You didn’t hear about it? It was on the news and everything.
You should invite her over for your own “oh, yeah” contest; but I have to warn you she is pretty good. And she prefers French Toast over pancakes for said contests.
Dinner time came around and seeing as my husband was out of pancakes and the buttermilk was about to go bad I decided that breakfast was on the menu. Kids were all kinds of okay with that. Sitting down at the table the kids starting talking about the remarkable things that happen to them at school. Logan started off by saying that there was this one boy who was mean and he was throwing woodchips at his back and Logan told him to stop. Boy did not- threw them again and smiled. Logan said to stop or he was going to tell. Boy smiled bigger and kept throwing them. Logan walked away. (I am a proud mama)
Then I hear this “oh, yeah…” coming from Cousin’s mouth. She proceeds to tell Logan about this boy at her school who chases her everyday and she always tells him to stop, but he never does. He was chasing all the girls around and Cousin got tired of it so she told on him and he got detention for being mean.
Hmmmm… Detention for chasing girls? Are they giving out detention for jumping rope too? I am just glad that Logan does not attend this school. (I may have left out a small part about Cousin having the most extensive imagination of any other child that I know- and I know a lot!)
Logan chimes in with his “OH, YEAH!” getting louder and more listen-to-this tone of voice. He tells of a story of the 2 bullies in his grade, one of them wanted to play with him and he was kind of nervous about playing with the bully, but he decided that he needed to be nice to everyone (again, proud mama) so he played with him for a minute. Then a few days later said bully got mad at one of the teachers and kicked the outside door so hard that it shattered the glass inside!!! (this actually did happen) He still isn’t allowed back at school.
“OOOOH, YEAHHHHHH!!!” Chimes in Cousin and goes on to say that one day her bully at school was chasing her friend around with a fake spider and kept on putting it on her friends shoulder and her friend would scream. Cousin would chase the boy and then go back to console her frazzled friend and then boy would do it again and again.
THEN… he found a real spider. IT WAS A TARANTULA!!!! And he was putting it on her friends, but Cousin wasn’t even scared, she was getting mad because he was teasing her friends. So she grabbed the spider and stomped on it and killed it. And the boy cried because the spider was his and he wanted to keep it. And so he told. But Cousin ran away and then recess was over so she didn’t get in trouble.
THEN… The next day he brought his snake and he hid it in his desk and was feeding it paper and pencil shavings to keep it in there and then at recess he took it outside. And Cousin saw it and IT WAS A RATTLE SNAKE AND IT HAD VENOM!!!!!!!!! But Cousin still wasn’t scared, all the other girls were screaming and running around and hiding from the snake charming bully. Cousin knew she had to take action, and how! She said that she was going to chase him to death so he better run!! He was running, the snake was rattling, Cousin was chasing. Then the boy tripped and he fell and the snake went flying into the air and everyone around saw it and they were running and screaming- even the recess monitor!! Cousin had to be quick! She grabbed the snake with two hands and she ripped it in half and killed it! BUT not before it bit her on the hand! She had to suck out the venom with her mouth and it was gross!!! Then the boy cried again (this boy is turning out to be a really wimpy bully) and went and told the recess monitor. And Cousin tried to run, but she was weak from the sucking of the venom, so she got caught this time. The recess monitor said that she saw the whole thing.
And Cousin got a warning.
Then I turned from my pancake making and looked at Logan’s reaction to such a story. He was pretty pale and looking at Cousin with that kind of look that says “Holy cow!! You only got a warning!?!?!” And then “WOOOOAAAAHH!!!!” Came out of the boys mouth.
“Oh, Yeah” contest done. Cousin wins.
After all, it was a totally true story according to the two of them.
What? You didn’t hear about it? It was on the news and everything.
You should invite her over for your own “oh, yeah” contest; but I have to warn you she is pretty good. And she prefers French Toast over pancakes for said contests.
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