The Day Clowns Took Ty's Shoe

 Tiberias announced "I'm going to go outside and play." He opened the front door to leave and as I looked up I saw him wearing one croc. Just one. 

"You're going out with just one shoe?!" I laughed.

He replied " My other shoe is on Brandon's porch."

This reminds me of the story of The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash. It felt like such a silly thing and it seemed that if I were to ask "Why did you leave just one shoe on Brandon's porch?" Then Ty would say something like "I didn't leave it there. It ended up there because some clowns came down the street and took it from me. Then my friends tried to get it back but the clowns tossed it back and forth to each other in the air. So I gave up and went home with just one shoe." Or something crazy like that. 

So I decided just not to ask.

 

Athena's Lost Her First Tooth!

 

 Athena lost her first tooth today. November 2nd. She was eating her sandwich in the lunch room at school when it came out into her food. Her teacher gave her a special tiny treasure chest to keep her tooth safe in. She brought it home so excited to tell me she lost her first tooth. 

Yesterday I was putting away the Halloween decorations under the stairs. And a big cardboard box I had stored in their was just in the way. I decided to carve a little bit off the end to make it shorter and take up less space.
Athena could hear me sawing through the cardboard. From the bathroom she called out "It sounds like you're killing it!" She knew "it" was cardboard. But children loove cardboard...especially this child.

I responded "It's just too long. I'm only cutting off a little bit."

She yelled back"You CUT it!?!" LOL. I thought it was so funny. As if I had hurt a creature.