Today the City of Allen had a major In & Out Frenzy!! In & Out Burger opened its doors today and it was a mad house! When we drove by at lunch time there were so many cars and people in the parking lot that all you could see were heads and hoods. On the radio they said that by 1pm the line for the drive-thru was a 3 hour wait and the standing line to get in and order was 2 hours. Not only are people willing and eager to pay for clogged arteries, heart disease, and high cholesterol...but they are willing to wait in line for 3 hours for it too. Nothing like a "Double Double" to kickstart your day with 670 calories and 41 grams of fat. Wow...Can I just say that I have never been happier to be vegetarian? That is insane! WALL-E may not be that far off in la la land after all.
Lara and I have a new tagline for Cristian..."Go speedracer..." For those of you that have seen the movie Speedracer, you will know why. There is a scene at the beginning of the movie where "Speed" is sitting in his classroom but instead of paying attention he is ALL into his drawings of racing and his drawings are so vivid and real to him. That is SO Cristian minus the racing theme. Everytime he brings his schoolwork home we flip the pages and on the back of the page is usually a slew of drawings he "worked" on. He has a full blown detailed story on every single thing he doodles..and I mean every single one. Elaborate characters..the whole enchilada. I absolutely love how imaginative he is. He completely loses himself in his drawings and doodles and I love to listen to him tell me about what is going on in his pictures. He has started carrying a notebook everywhere with him lately and just sits there and draws all kinds of things. Here are his doodles from dinner time to bed time today:
It is like IGOR meets Tim Burton! LOL! I love it! He explained that the first picture is him and Ashley getting married. He is so smitten with Ashley...boy is his little heart going to break when she dates her first boyfriend.
I need to start a little book of all the "Cristian-isms" so that when he is older he can have a good laugh to share with his kids and grandkids. I had quite a bit of responses to yesterday's blog from people who loved Cristian's little conversation on never leaving home. How funny...I didn't realize it would have that effect, lol. as funny as this sounds...those conversations are the norm around our house. There is never a dull moment with our child - and I love that! I am going to miss this stinker when he is all grown up and can't wait to leave home :(
Since it will be nice to have all these little moments to look back on one day I will share a convo from tonight with my little man...topic tonight? His teacher and school.
Cristian - I got PURPLE today!!! Mims you are so proud aren't you Mims? It's my lucky day!!
M E - I'm super proud of you! You must be so proud of yourself for getting purple in school.
Cristian - Yes. It is my lucky day! I did so great! Ms "B" said..."ooooh I like how Cristian is sitting he might get a purple".
Lara - That is so awesome buddy!
Cristian - Ms "B" sometimes has a mad face and mad voice.
M E - Oh?
Cristian - Yes, she got to. She sometimes gets upset because the kids are not listening so she gots to have a mad voice and tell them.."next person to say a word is moving their clip".
Lara - Oh boy...
Cristian - I don't like her to be upset. I like her happy. Thats why I got PURPLE (yes he was squealing that one)...because I like to make Ms B's heart happy.
M E - Aww that's sweet
Cristian - Mims she is my best teacher so I got to make her heart happy.
Cristian - Ohhh I have more coupons so soon I will get to sit in the rocking chair in the library! Or I could eat lunch with a teacher!
M E - How cool. What would be more fun?
Cristian - Well...I think I want to rock in a rocking chair because I had lunch with a teacher once at my desk and yuck...they eat animals. That is not nice! And I can't eat with Ms "B" because she got bad sunburn and Mrs "H" told us that she didn't put on sun screen and went in the sun and forgot how much time it was and then it burned her skin and that hurts. Sunburns are not good you need sun screen in the sun or it makes you red and so if I have lunch with her then she has to sit in the chair with a sunburn so I think the rocking chair.
M E - So what is going to be your favorite part of school next year you think?
Cristian - Helping other children learn and get smart so that they can get good jobs when they grow up because knowledge is power Mimi and we get to watch Magic school bus on pbskids on Ms "B"'s whiteboard in class. I learned lots of stuff in school. Ms "B" taught me about Taylor Swift but that is all over now and there is amazon.com and stopbullying.com and power reading! The kids have to learn to power read so they can be really smart.
From the mouth of babes...he is always so random and just strings sentences together from 5 different thought sources! But, it makes me smile anyway :)
Cheers,
M E
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