boyz 2 men

last week i went on a field trip with the kids from the school to the circus.  on the bus ride home we saw a man choking a woman on the side of the road.  the bus was still moving, so gabe just yelled out the window and apparently scared the guy because he let go of the woman and walked away.  the kids kept talking about it the whole way home, and i didn’t know what to say to the kids about it.  all i could think to do was make one of my boys promise that he would never hit his girlfriend(s) when he grew up.  he right away promised that he never would and added, “i wouldn’t even hit my girlfriend if she was ugly!”

this is my cousin drew.  he is usually crabby and cries a lot.  one time a random lady was telling him how cute he was and he told her to shut up.  i’m obviously not around him a whole lot, but as far as i can tell, i think that story sums him up pretty well.

anyhow, my sister had a housewarming party last weekend, and drew showed up.  i decided that i was going to try and make him like me.  it totally worked.  he followed me around the whole time he was there, it even got to the point where i was trying to hide from him eventually.  i made him like me by taking into consideration what he would consider to be fun.  which isn’t making baby noises and telling him how cute he is, but by pretending that me and him were going to go around and cut all the girl’s hair off at the party.  i would be like, “let’s go cut off brooke’s hair!!”, and he would laugh and laugh.  and then he started pointing at any girl he saw and saying that we should cut their hair off.  he loved the idea of that.  at one point i said, “i’m going to cut your mommy’s hair off!”.  that time he didn’t laugh or anything.  he got angry and screamed, “noooooooooooo!!”

we are thinking about cutting your hair off.