Currents: Sam

Well hello! How about a list of currents?



current books: Sam still spends a lot of time with his tag books. especially during his rest time. i'm no longer making him sleep, so he stays in his room and just plays with those books for over an hour each day. we also got one called Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten that he likes. i asked the librarian for recommendations and she kept coming at me with all of these books about how you might feel nervous and scared and shy, and i was like, hmmm, do they have any about kids who aren't shy enough? cause that would be a better direction for me to head.
current album: well. his favorite is Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake. He thinks it's just called Number 1 Justin Timberlake. I don't have the child version, so he actually drops two f bombs in it. i think i've been deluding myself that he's not really listening to the lyrics, because recently, while listening to another song he started asking me all about what she was singing about. and i said it was about someone who stopped loving someone else. and he got really still and said, are you going to stop loving me? and i assured him that nothing in the whole entire world could ever make that happen. but then i thought, boy, he's really listening. i really ought to download a cleaner version of Number One Justin Timberlake.
current film: the princess and the frog. i like it almost as much as he does. it's a good flick.
current shame-inducing guilty pleasure: well, i don't think it's anything to be ashamed of, but the boy loves cotton candy flavored moo tubes (yogurt) and requests to eat approximately 10 a day and reminds me every time that he doesn't like cotton candy but he likes cotton candy moo tubes. i wonder if he's afraid i'm going to sneak REAL cotton candy into his yogurt. as if.
current color: i can't say that sam has ever dedicated himself to just one color.
current links: well, it's not a link, but he likes angry birds. craig downloaded it on his phone and the two of them can lose some time with that stupid game. knock a bunch of pigs down with a bird. don't even get me started.
current fetish: sucking water into his cheeks and then spitting it out onto his brother in the bath, repetitively watching the Yo Gabba Gabba Halloween episode, playing Lego Star Wars with his dad on XBox for 15 minutes before bed each night.
current songs: Oh, I think we covered this one.
current outfit: he's been in camp all week. and this week's theme was splish splash, so he has spent literally one whole week in his bathing suit and an ill-matched t-shirt. tomorrow, i'm taking them for pictures at picture people, and he asked me what was going to happen if he couldn't look handsome tomorrow. i assured him that he certainly would look handsome tomorrow. he wouldn't be able to even help it. and then he smiled real goofy like and said even if i look like this? he has also become very disconcerted by the fit of his underpants. we had to make an emergency underpants purchasing outing because i cannot talk with him any more about how his underpants got way too small overnight. we were both going mental and clearly, new underpants had to move to the top of the priority list.
current fragrance: hot humid sweaty summery boy. best smell ever.
current drink: he told my mother that lemonade was his favorite drink in the whole world and he only wanted to drink lemonade all the time. he has had lemonade approximately 3 times at our home. so i don't know what that's all about.
current wish list: yo gabba gabba bath tub squirters from kidsnips (the place he gets his hair cut). they are only $7, but craig and i are getting pretty conscientious about not buying him little presents very often, not because we can't, but because we were noticing a little sense of entitlement evolving in him, and knew that our desire to please him with prizes and see him happy was having a negative effect on his behavior and that, really, WE were giving him a false sense of entitlement. so, we're trying to teach him about earning money and how to handle himself when he doesn't get all the things he wants. we've been putting off thinking up some chores for him to do each week. we're thinking of doing a $3 a week allowance. and he can spend some of it, save some of it and share some of it (put it away to give to a charity of his choice which from conversations we've had seems to be some organization to help homeless people. he is horrified that some people do not have homes and we discuss it fairly regularly). so every day since his last haircut, he asks when can he start earning money and even said "thank you for giving me jobs to do so i can earn money for my bathtub squirters." it was hard in that moment to resist rushing out and buying those squirters for him right then and there.
current triumph: being able to spin out on his big wheel.
current bane of his existence: it is the bane of all of our existence at the moment, and that is henry choosing to scream these high-pitched shrieks when he wants to communicate his unhappiness. the other day, henry screamed so much that sam simply burst into tears. it's a loud house over here.
current crush: he's too young to really have crushes, but our next door neighbor made him a little valentine today. it was a heart and was all decorated and then on the back it said that he was a good friend. and she came over to deliver it and he seemed pleased but shy about it. and then he sat looking at his little heart for a good 10 minutes. you could tell that he thought it was strange, but he loved it too.
current indulgence: i'm going to sound too hippy dippy if i say that yogurt is an indulgence.
current excitement: kindergarten. he's pretty interested to see how it's going to happen. i've given him a lot of prep on the whole you have to raise your hand and then you have to WAIT and he's all disgusted about it like I KNOW MOM, but i think his teacher is going to be in for it in that regard. he'll just start shouting excuse me whenever he has something to say and think that's going to fly over there. HA!
current mood: excited, loving, eager to please, with sharp bursts of frustration.