While watching TJ's soccer lessons, yesterday and chatting with the other parents, TJ comes up to me and gives me a big hug and kiss. It was very sweet. Then he decided to settle in, quite uncharacteristic of him. As he's sitting on my lap, I'm loving it, but he needs to go back with the other kids to play soccer so I send him out there.
He doesn't listen.
"TJ, I'm taking out my phone, I tell him. Do you want an X or a star?"
"A star! A star! No X!" he says.
"OK, then go back out there."
He hesitates.
I say "Five."
He runs out there before I can say "four, three, two, one" which would cause an X on a memo on my blackberry.
One of the other moms looks at me and says "You are like one of the moms they write about in Parents Magazine. I would have just yelled at my kids."
Hey, I'll take that.