Word to your mother

Today was yet another uneventful day. I slept in late with my hubby (which is ALWAYS nice). We laid around and eventually got up and got ready for a little last minute shopping. We are going to our friend's, Topsana and Willie (love them), for Christmas eve dinner and I needed to buy all the ingredients for the stuff I am taking. I am making stuffed manicotti, a pecan pie, rolls, choc. covered pretzels, and creme puffs. YUM! I did a trial run for the creme puffs tonight and I think they turned out pretty good. I have made them once before but it was under the supervision of my ex father-in-law, who happens to be the one who gave me the recipe. I think I did him proud tonight.
Clint and I played Boggle again tonight. CJ was so cute trying to join in by writing his own words. Most of the time it was jumbled letters that formed nothing more than a language yet to be discovered, but after a while he decided to change his tactic and would think of a few words that he wanted to sound out and write on his own before the timer ran out. He spelled fast, book, bean, and took a stab at piranha (p-u-r-n-u was his final product-lol). I had to give him an "A" for effort that's for sure.
He is doing really well with his reading. I noticed early this summer that he caught on really quickly to letters and their sounds so I made a goal for him to be reading before Kindergarten. So far he is doing well at sounding out 3 and 4 letter words. I don't know how I lucked up and got two very smart children! OH! Let's not forget his new interest in the Presidents of the United States. I don't want to overload his little brain, but he is so inquisitive about things I never thought a 5 year old would ever think to wonder about. Which leads me to a very funny story!!!
One day a few weeks ago he was singing some songs that his pre-k class was practicing for their class Christmas program. When he sang Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer we got to the end where you say "You'll go down in history. Like George Washington." I asked him if he knew who George Washington was and he said "No". I gave him the very generic answer that he was the first president of the U.S. He asked me if he was dead and I said "Yes". Well, then he wanted to know how old he was when he died and HOW he died. I didn't know the answer to that and told him that he would have to ask his daddy. Clint, being the history buff that he is, would surely know the answer to that. So CJ asked his daddy and Clint proceeded to explain that he died from what they think was strep throat blah blah blah and he showed CJ a picture of him on the internet. CJ has seen G.W. everywhere now that he knows what he looks like. On the dollar bill and while watching T.V. he spotted him on Mt. Rushmore. We gathered together a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and showed him all the different presidents on each coin and of course explained the monetary value of each one. Clint asked CJ if he could spot the difference between all of the presidents on each coin. One was very different than all the others. CJ pointed out that the president on the penny was facing a different way from the rest. We explained to him that he was Abraham Lincoln and that he was the president that freed the slaves. Of course we had to explain to CJ what a slave was at that point. Anyways Clint told him that it is said to believe that the reason why he is facing the opposite direction is because of his efforts to free the slaves. And without skipping a beat CJ pipes in, "OOOOOOOH! So THAT'S why the penny is brown!!!" I thought I was going to fall out of my chair!!!! I think he may be the one to squash the old stereotype that all jocks are dumb.