June 5, 2009

The Nun and the Bomb Disabler

This week, Big I came home with a big announcement. A couple weeks ago, all the 2nd graders took a writing test. It had something to do with the state tests. The other day, they got their scores. Most of the students scored either "basic"or "proficient" but Big I's test didn't have a score on it. Her teacher made an announcement that there was one student who had a writing test so perfect that it had been shared with all the other teachers. She asked Big I to stand up and told her that she was the only one who had scored "advanced." Apparently, she didn't have a single mistake in the story she wrote. Not one.

To say I'm proud of her is the understatement of the century. I can't for the life of me figure out where she got such awesome writing genes though.

On the same day, Lil C brought me a Mickey Mouse movie she wanted to watch. There was only one problem; she had snapped the DVD in half. Later, when I went to put a different movie on for her, I picked up the DVD remote to find that she had also snapped off the battery cover so that it will no longer stay on. She was definitely in one of her destructive modes; and I was scared to see what would be next.

I didn't have to wait long. I opened up the powder room cabinet to get a box of tissues out and saw that half a box of tampons had been completely unwrapped, and pulled apart into their varying pieces. They fell out of the cabinet in a rush as if there had been a tampon explosion or something.

She is forever taking things apart; and Big I is forever trying to put the pieces back together. When the girls color, Lil C sits there taking the paper off of each crayon, while Big I freaks out and tries to put them back on. Lil C wants all the dolls undressed and rearranged. She likes to take their pony tails out too, which drives Big I to near hysteria. Lil C will take paper, tissues, whatever and shred it until it looks like there's been a ticker tape parade in the house, while Big I has a fit that there is stuff everywhere. Lil C is forever loosening knobs on drawers, and taking pens completely apart so she can examine the springs and guts of the pen. There isn't a remote or toy in the house that hasn't been taken apart and then put back together in some crazy way.

If someone were to ask me what I think the future holds for my girls, I would probably say that I think Big I will either be a nun or a writer/artist or both.

With skills like Lil C has, I'm thinking she will probably have a future disabling bombs.

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