I keep telling myself that I can log these these incidents in my memory for stories to tell the press when he gets elected president. The future equivalent of Barbara Walters (or her floating head in a jar) will find it immensely amusing that the most powerful man in the world once peed on another student in pre-school, but somehow managed to pull it together to rule the nation.
Needless to say, he's been getting consequences, so many consequences that we've been running out of consequences to give him. When your child gets "written up" at school so many times that they give up on writing him up, you start to run out of punishments, and you begin to think you aren't just doing something wrong as a parent, but everything.
Because Collin had so been looking forward to Wizard Con (which he thought was Comic Con), it made perfect sense to take away the privilege of going when he got in trouble at school three times last week. He was devastated at first, and then, didn't care. Darn those kids for not taking punishment seriously. I was more upset than him because the tickets weren't free, I'd bought him a costume and Daddy was home to go with us.
Thankfully, he was able to recover his behavior all day on Saturday and we conceded and let him go. He's on an insanely strict system of earning poker chips for good behavior and getting them taken away for poor behavior. He can barely breathe out of line these days.
Anyway, he got to meet R2D2 who rolled right up to him and beeped and blipped at him. It was nice to be able to take him to something he was looking forward to and it's always fun to see him starstruck. The operator (wait, did I destroy the illusion?) even had R2D2 reach out to him with one of his little robot arms. It was pretty awesome.
Now, if only I can get Collin to get on and stay on the good behavior track. Oy.
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that look on his face that he actually is meeting r2d2.....THAT IS GREAT!
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