On A Side Note

As Chase gets older and our family gets busier, there are many things that I keep mental notes of in hopes that I will have time to go back and do something with these notes (that disappear from my brain just a quickly as they appear).  Here are my "side notes" from today:

On a side note:

Enroll Chase in art classes. After spending many, many minutes (I know what you’re thinking, “Minutes?” Yes. Minutes.  Anyone who has ever played play-dough with a two year old knows that time drags on, and on, and on and it takes everything inside of you to restrain yourself from yanking the play-dough out of your tots hands and finishing the project yourself so you can- for the love of God- move on to a different activity.) watching Chase sculpt his statue, this is what he came up with-  

Chase entitled his masterpiece, “Crushed play-dough.”

Dear feelings- please don’t be hurt that Chase thought your sculpture was a spider.  I don’t know how he could have mistaken my self-sculpture for a yucky, creepy, crawly spider.  (On a side note- get Chase’s eyes checked.)

On a side note:

Toughen up my tiny Sally.  Chase’s insult of the day was, “I will wipe off your kisses.” Oh please, oh please child, toughen up by middle school. (Because I’m not going to stop dressing you in sweater vests anytime soon and you will, most certainly, need to defend yourself.)

I hope I have enough time tomorrow to follow-up on all of my "notes."  

On a side note, this is day one of our “Elf on the Shelf” experience.  I’ll keep you posted on this naughty, naughty elf’s mischievous adventures.  Or as Chase would call him, “A naughty pants.” Because clearly, everything is more dramatic when you add “pants” on the end.