Day 4 - The Coke Zero Box

Wow. Lively start.

Summer is in tatters right now...just a broken child...she looks more depressing than those "For the cost of 1 cup of coffee a day" kids...

Ethan is fine. He's watching Backyardigans and asked me to sit and watch with him. While we watch he grips my right hand. Over and over.

Owen is off doing whatever it is 4 year olds who are self-sufficient do...Last time I checked he was reading the paper and smoking a cigarette.

Joke.

Anyways, Tom ("Dad") is here so we're talking about what I did last night (because I am 25 and normal, I do things at night...like rip my door handle off)...Then we start getting the kids ready for school.

Today is Pajama Day by the way so this whole "getting them ready" thing didn't really entail anything more than shoes and sweatshirts.

Before I delve any deeper into this story let me explain something about the two boys...Of the two I would describe Owen as more likely to pursue a career in athletics or bounty hunting. Ethan is most likely heading towards politician or game show host due to his love of saying hello to people in public. This is just how it is.

It was around this time that Ethan, who is very mild mannered and not at all aggressive like Owen, picks up an empty Coke Zero box and slaps Owen in the face with it. I mean he slapped the sh*t out of Owen with this box.

Tom and I spring into the same "Whoa what the?" reaction because it was really this fast. It looked like Ethan had been plotting it for days. Have you ever seen a prison movie where you know someone is going to get a shank to the gut but they don't know it so when it happens its all sudden and such? Imagine that only replace inmates with kids.

Although we both reprimanded Ethan (and both audibly laughed initially) and asked Owen if he was OK (he was unfazed...so thats cool) I believe Tom and I were both taken aback by Ethan's remorse. It was as if he blacked out...like he had this box and his immediate reaction was to smack his brother in the face with it.

Then he realized what he had done. The next 2 minutes were spent with Ethan holding Owen's head saying "Saw-wee Owen...Saw-wee" until Tom told him that we all got the picture.

The trip to school was fairly uneventful. Windows went down. Windows went up. Summer was adamant that she did not want to hear Garrett this morning. Ethan did. We compromised so on the ride back Ethan gets Garrett Music. He also has to ride in the middle. We're learning to take the good with the bad.

Anyways...that's all I got right now.

Oh and good news I think I figured out how to work my camera so I might have something to post later...Stay Tuned...