All this by 10 AM?

Josh is full of fun today. I went this morning and got gas, while I was doing that a sneaky Josh got out of his car seat and climbed into the drivers seat so that when I opened the door, there he was. Much to the amusement of the man walking by. I strapped him back into to his own seat and went about my day. Got home and found out Brianna's school was being released and that she and her friend were coming here. So I do a few quick chores before I go to pick them up and Josh decides to help by once again unrolling a roll of toilet paper and pulling the recycling out and putting it all over the kitchen. He and I arrive at the school at 10 to pick up the girls, but they are waiting on a few buses. So we wait. Josh wiggles out of his car seat and climbs in the front. The car isn't running but the radio is on. He amuses himself by playing with the heat and the wipers. THEN he does something I didn't know the car would do. Just as the kids are released and in the parking lot, he pulls the gearshift and the car starts rolling backwards! Thankfully I don't hit any kids or a bus! On the ride home he accosts Brianna's friend and commands the girls to "stop singing." This is his newest car thing, any song sung by a boy is "his song." except he doesn't sing them he just doesn't want anyone else to either! When we arrive home, Anna and her friend come quickly in the house to hear a song that is on the radio and I go to get Josh out, well he only wants Anna to get him out. So I call her out to get him, but when she gets to the car he wants me to get him out. So I do, but he isn't happy about it, because he decided he wants Anna. UGH He is being a stinker! Have a wonderful day in the rain!

TALENT SHOW TIME

I am in my 4th year as co-chair for the talent show at Ian's school. So today Josh and I went in to figure out tryout order for tomorrow. I hoped to be done by 11. We FINALLY left at 1!!! Wow, you are thinking, that took a long time. Why yes, it did. Josh refused to do anything I wanted him to. Like stay with me. He started out by breaking into Mrs. Birdseye's desk and stealing gum. He then ran into and out of the computer lab. He got very excited when a class came in and started showing off for the girls by kicking me and telling me to go away. He then climbed into a tiny doghouse, to which I told the students I wished it had a door to keep him in there. He next decided he would go check out what other kids were doing. He went into a third grade classroom and wouldn't leave. He asked the teacher if he could play with her Lego's and she was like, well.... His response? SAY YES. So of course she did, who can resist him. I asked her if she wanted me to take him and she said he was ok. So I hurry up and get back to work. She brings him to me a while later. He stays with me for all of  5 minutes. I go to find him and he is BACK in her room, reading quietly in the corner with another student, she says he can stay. Finally I am done on the computer and so he and I go to the copy room.

I make some copies, he pours glue and rips tape out of the holder and puts them on a piece pf paper. A wonderful mom sees my struggling to not to go to jail by locking my son in the car and offers to type up a form I need and copy it. So she does that and I leave her my phone so she has the copy machine code. I take Josh to go pass forms out to teachers. He runs ahead, lags behind and is generally a PAIN. I am standing in a classroom sorting my forms and he is going into kids desks. He then disappears. I mean REALLY disappears. I can't find him anywhere. So the principal, the secretary, and custodian are helping look. I finally find him in the music room,playing the xylophone. Now I am ready to leave, but WAIT, where is my phone? It's missing. So I call it and thankfully a wonderful parent hears it ringing BEHIND the copier and rescues it. Blessedly my sister is watching Josh during tryouts tommorow. I am now EXHAUSTED, with a long night and week ahead. Josh is something else. Hugs and blessings to you all.