happy presidents day

Anderson was out of school today in honor of Presidents Day. He spent the night with Granddaddy and stayed up until 2 am. He was bragging about that to me this afternoon inbetween yawns. Other than that, he doesn't seem tired, but that is because he probably slept past 10 am this morning.

This afternoon, Granddaddy took Anderson, Jackson and Andrew to Wal-Mart to pick out a toy and to McDonald's for lunch. Needless to say, they were thrilled and each came home with a prized possession. Anderson chose a tractor trailer truck that carries a race car in it. Jackson made a similar choice, while Andrew chose a gun that shoots out sponge-like nerf darts. Just what he needed! It's a double barrel gun--so it improves his chances of hitting his target, which may not be a good thing. Of course, it would not be as dangerous if he shot someone with this gun as the beebee gun he shot at his grandfather a few weeks ago. (Don't ask. Just consider it a lesson learned for Granddaddy. Just when you think Andrew is not capable of cocking a rifle, he proves you wrong.)

Tonight, Paul brought home the truck which carries all of our portable storage units. Bennett is smitten with this truck...or "tuck", as he calls it. Actually it is the "pah tuck", which is his way of saying the "Pack Man truck". He played in it with his daddy until dinner time. Since the truck is usually not at our home, Bennett crawls in his daddy's lap and says "tuck" just so that Paul will go to the Pack Man website and show Bennett a picture of the truck. He reminds me so much of Anderson at this age. Anderson, too, was so fascinated with heavy machinery. We would be driving past construction sites, which seem to be on every corner in our area, and he would actually tell me what each piece of equipment was--a bulldozer, a track hoe, a back hoe, a skid steer, a front-end loader, a dump truck, etc. I had no clue, but he knew them all, thanks to Granddaddy.

In other news for today, Paul sold the remainder of the NC State basketball tickets for this season. I was very pleased with this decision as NC State has not been a source of great joy but of tremendous frustration for my boys this season. We are weary with the inconsistency, and so we will wait until August for football season. Then, maybe we will get excited about our school again. In the meantime, ignorance may be bliss as far as the outcomes of Wolfpack basketball is concerned.