Cat, bat, hat, WHAT????

James had his kindergarten readiness testing day before yesterday. Let me just preface this with the fact that he did excellent and more than passed with flying colors. In fact, on the reading portion, he flew through the regular tester books so well that they brought out the big guns - the end of the year reading book. And he flew through that one, too.

That said...

One part of the test was rhyming words. i thought, "Well this'll go great; we play the rhyming game all the time!" It's just james, me and the tester lady at this kid-sized table in the library. She says, "Ok, i'm giong to say three words, two of them will rhyme. tell me which words rhyme."

So she does, and he does, and everything's fine.

THEN she says, "Ok, i'm going to say THREE words, and i want you to tell me a word that rhymes with all three of them. ready? Cat, hat, bat..."

He looks at her for a few moments with eyes that are focused with concentration. then he says very slowly, dragged out for about 10 seconds...

"Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick" (kind of like when ralphie says "fuuuuuuudge" on A Christmas Story).

I just died, busted out laughing, i cant stop, it's like I'm 10 years old in the front row at church or something. Nothing is helping. Even 10 minutes later, as I'm watching him take the rest of the test, if I thought about it I busted out laughing again! I'm sure the tester lady was tres impressed with little Mr. Rhymes-a-lot (or not!) and his immature mother!

And every time i think about it still, i can hardly contain myself.

***************************************************************************

So we only have four days till I have a kindergartener and a 7th grader! What a whirlwind summer it seems we've had. I'm supposed to take Clara shopping today, but I have put my foot down and told her that we are NOT buying any more sports t-shirts and shorts. She has more than enough for the rest of her life, and if she gets new clothes, it will be decent stuff, you know, like jean shorts! Grandma Dolloff gave her a million dollars in Visa gift cards, and I told her we'd be spending it all on bras and underpants before I let her buy any more soccer shorts. She needs that stuff anyway.

*****************************************************************************

James has gotten me absolutely hooked on the Star Wars Complete Saga Lego Wii game. I love it so much. We're *this* close to beating the whole game! Anyway, playing the game got me wanting to watch all six expisodes of the Star Wars movies. James and I decided it would be our mission to watch them all as quickly as possible. We had the first three, bought the next two, and borrowed the last one from Stacie. I'd asked Clara if she wanted to watch with us, and she wasn't interested. However, as we are on the last leg of the 5th movie, she came in and got interested. Now, mind you, James and I have invested about 10 hours into Star Wars movie time, and she has the nerve to ask us if we will start over because she wants to watch now! :) I'm glad she wants to watch with us, but we are not starting over...not until we finish this last one anyway. Then we'll watch them all over again. It makes for some good snuggle time, as we put the movie in the DVD player in Scott's and my bedroom, throw all the pillows in the entire house on the bed, and cuddle down.

***************************************************************************

Tonight we go pick up Clara's schedule for school. She's so excited/nervous. She'll be going to the school that USED to be the high school when I graduated. I think that's kind of neat. It's the first time she'll be at a school where I went. I wonder how many classrooms she'll sit in that I sat in before, 15 (jeez) years ago. She'll work out in the same gym and eat in the same lunch room, that's for sure! Too cool :)