Sick Day

made the choice to keep the boy child home today....
his symptoms...

not hungry and not wanting caring about watching tv...

and you ask how do these = symptoms...and how to those symptoms warrant a get-out-of-school-free-card?

the boy child's 1st words every morning...'what's for breakfast?'
if he's not hungry he's sick...and he has yet to eat more than a mini muffin by 11 am....

he has been known to try to stay home from school a time or two to cuddle with mom, reading books, coloring, making crafts...okay lets be real...playing video games and watching cartoons while sister has to go to school...(such was his life for so many years that it's hard to break the pattern!)

so when he claims he's not hungry and doesn't want to school...I know this ploy, as soon as the sister is out the door and the school van has left the driveway his appetite returns and it's all down hill from there!

I asked him if he thinks he's too sick for school,
          he claims yes...
I then let him know that if he stays home there will be absolutely 100% no screen time
     (tv, video games, ds, computer...etc...)...
that usually gets him...
the child is instantly hungry and healed and on his happy way to school....

not today, 'that's okay, I think I'll just stay in my room and rest!'....

and that's how I know the boy child is sick!

not that he hasn't tried to get me to turn the tv on a few times...but when I remind him he said he would stay home even without screen time, he goes back to reading some books or coloring....

oh...and trying to build a minion....
yes, he has decided to build his own robot minion....
a mini metal robot minion...

he scavenged thru the junk draw...don't judge you all have one!

found a hinge and drawer pull...
2 screws
and a screw driver...
he really wanted me to get the 'metal hole maker thingy'...told him I didn't have one and he was very disappointed...he was sure we had one on the porch aka craft tool mess....

but he worked thru the disappointment and made his minion

explaining to me about his minion

 discovering that minion is fun to take apart and put back together...

he has now decided to market his minion idea...
'mom, we can put all the weird metal pieces from our junk draw into bags and sell them as minion kits...'
not a bad idea...
and he even came up with a tv jingle...
'Put Him together and take Him apart...Minion!'
...'mom, all the boys will want to spend all their money on these, it's a great idea!'

hmmm...sick days might not be such a bad idea if the boy child can come up with great money making ideas!
and he is now designing a water minion!