Firefly is always wanting to be older and bigger than he is. He has the goal of gaining 20 pounds and/or growing 7 inches by the time he is 8 years old in December so that he can be out of the booster seat. I’ve explained to him that that seems unlikely, but am keeping an eye out for any large quantities of missing food should he decide to really push forward with any kind of plan.
Today, when I picked him up at school he told me he thinks he is basically just a short teenager, and that most people who meet him probably think that, because he is tall for a 7 year old and very smart (and very modest too apparently…). Firefly has also decided that he has a pimple on his neck. It looks to me like maybe a bug bite or dry skin spot, but who am I to crush pre-adolescent dreams? It was a big production tonight- talking about it, figuring out a remedy (hot wash cloth). Trying to find the pimple (as it is almost invisible) to treat it, and then celebrating its disappearance after showering and hot compress. I’m not sure we’re all going to make it through his actual adolescence- especially since he is not a teenager for 6 more years…
Meanwhile, my buddy Lightning Bug was more interested in rescuing a caterpillar from the parking lot than trying to grow a pimple- thank goodness!
Firefly and Lightning Bug 