boys, Boys, BOYS!!!

I know, 2 posts in one day. Unbelievable! I had already started (and almost finished) my other post when I picked up the kids from school and found Nathan like this. It had to be documented.

{another boy thing in the house, Dane ripped off the hardware on the table. nice}

OK, I'm really only talking about one boy here but can you believe what he looked like when I picked him up at school? The aide in his class is my aunt's sister (follow that?) and she followed him to the van. I thought she was going to tell me about the HUGE mess on his clothes but no, she told me something much more disturbing (more on the clothes below)!

She said Nathan came over to her with a small handful of rocks and showed them to her. She immediately knew what they were, told him to get rid of them and was going to send him to the office to clean up but then saw me pull up at parent pick up. Here's where it gets gross. They were rocks or litter or whatever they put over throw up on a sidewalk. GROSS. SICK. TOTALLY WRONG! The pile had someone standing next to it but obviously they weren't watching too close. A sneaky kindergartener named Nathan got past her and began to investigate the pile of 'rocks'. I barely let him in the van after she said that. He was straight into the bathroom with hot water and much soap to get those hands CLEAN! And all afternoon I was almost gagging at the thought of him picking up those rocks. Bleck!

Back to the clothes....Nathan told me that she (his class aide) put too much ketchup and mustard on his hot dog and it was slipping all over the place and falling out of the bun (apparently more than once?). I still can't see how he could get that messy from one hot dog in less than 20 minutes! But then I remember he's about to turn 6 and this is just the beginning of mess making. And stain removal. Thank heavens for Shout, Spray & Wash and Oxy Clean! I fear I may need all three on hand at all times!