I laughed a lot with the kids this week! Unfortunately, my memory is terrible, so I only remember a few of the things that the kids did that triggered my laughter.
The first one has to do with William. Apparently during the past school year he was fascinated watching several of his friends playing the Pokemon card game with each other during recess. So, he finally saved up some of his allowance and bought himself his own deck, which means, of course, that I had to buy myself a deck as well. We played quite a few rounds this weekend, and I must admit that I am very impressed with how well William took repeated defeat! Of course, he was pretty gracious in victory as well, but we won't talk about that...
Anyway, William is getting really good at reading as well! Though he still hasn't mastered all of the nuances of English (who has?!) So, several times he'd be reading something from one of his Pokemon cards to me and I would have to stop him and have him show me the word he had just read, because I couldn't quite make it out. Anyway, one of my favorites was when he was telling me that he was attacking me with his "pissy bolt". Buddy, it took a while to recover from that one! :) And it was even funny the second, third, fourth... etc. time as well! (Even though I tried to explain the fact that the p was silent in the syllable 'psy', he continued to bring out his 'pissy' pokemon, and have them use their 'pissy' energy to attack me with their 'pissy' attacks.
Another funny thing happened when we went out to the park on Friday morning. The kids got bored pretty quickly and wanted to come back in. I wanted them to stay out for a good stint since that meant that they would go down better come bedtime. So, I busted out the secret weapon that Mom had suggested, three paintbrushes and a small bucket of water. Buddy, you should have seen their little faces light up when they realized that I was giving them permission to put graffiti on the wooden playground! After they got going on that, they were very contentedly happy... at least until William thought it would be fun to dump the water down the slide, and then they found out that I would only allow them one bucket of water per week.
This week I also introduced the kids to some more important culture-type things. That is to say, we watched Earnest Scared Stupid, Earnest Goes to Jail, and Earnest Goes to Camp together (in that order). They loved those movies! Though I must admit that I had enjoyed them much more when I was younger than I did this time around. But I did get a big kick out of watching the kids watch the movies! They were literally rolling in the aisles! So I thought that I'd see how much they enjoyed some movies that I still enjoy. We watched The Gamers (which they loved) and then The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (which they loved even more). They were particularly fond of the many ways the Bard died, over and over again, in Dorkness Rising. Of course, Dorkness Rising has some stuff I don't really want the kids to be exposed to, such as some foul language, and the very horny bard. But we talked about how in some movies they use words that are bad and we shouldn't use, and I didn't hear them use any of the said words after watching the movie so hopefully that worked out. And when they looked at me with puzzled expressions on their faces when the bard would lead giggling damsels off to some back room, I explained that he wanted to kiss them even though they weren't married, and they seemed to accept that without question.
For some reason I sang the first verse of "you are my sunshine" to Carly this weekend when she was cuddled in my lap. She really liked me singing that song to her! So much so that she came up to me three times after that throughout the weekend and asked me to sing it to her while rocking her in my arms. I almost cried.
I did cry a little this morning in the car when we were getting ready to head out to church. Michael asked me: "Daddy, when are you coming back to Mommy's house?" I was a bit surprised, because I was pretty sure we had explained that we would not be getting back together again to the kids. So I replied: "Probably never Michael." When I turned around to start backing out of the parking space I noticed that tears were streaming down his face. I quickly parked the car and had him unbuckle and crawl into my lap. I rocked him as he sobbed into my chest for a few minutes. I could feel his little heart breaking! I cried with him and told him that I was so sorry, and that Jenny and I both still loved him and William and Carly very, very much, and that I really wished we could have worked things out so that I could come back. Surprisingly this episode seemed to affect me more than it did him. After a few minutes he gave me a hug, then crawled back to his seat and started acting like Michael again: smiling and making jokes. I guess he just needed a good cry. I was very happy to see that he was able to be so happy again so quickly after crying, even though I'm sure the hurt is far from over. I haven't been able to get over it that quickly, that's for sure!
Well, sorry to end on kind of a low note this week. But there it is.
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