L's Bad Day

My boy L had a bad day today.  It seems that everything that could go wrong, did.

The morning started off pretty good, he spent the morning playing April Fools jokes on me, silly ones like, "Mommy...I'm a statue....April Fools!" So when I dropped him off at school, how was I to know what was in store for him.  Had I only known.....

During recess, he and his buddy Jake were being chased by a girl (darn girls!) and in his attempt to flee he slipped on some wooden steps and fell.  He scraped up his chin then landed squarely on the butt in a big mud puddle.  I am not exactly sure how that happened, but he has a scrape on the chin and some mud- caked jeans came home in a plastic bag.  The note that came home said that he was very upset... rightfully so....I am upset too that a girl was chasing him too.  Oh....what?  He was upset about the fall?

Later during P.E. he was accidentally knocked down by another girl and bruised his knee.....  THEN another girl was following him and "I did not like that" L said.

When he got home I put his muddy coat, gloves and pants in the washing machine with some other laundry and when I was taking them out to put in the dryer, I noticed a lot of red in the washing machine.  My dear, darling boy had brought home a ketchup package for his little brother.  When will I learn to check pockets? So through the wash again went all the clothes.  But L was upset because now he could not give the ketchup package to H, and it was my fault.

Oh and there is more....He had climbed up on the counter and when he went to jump down, he caught the leg of his "borrowed from the teacher" pants on the newly installed hardware on the cabinet door.  Fortunately the pants were very loose and they just hiked up as he came to the floor.  But the hardware will probably leave a nice little bruise on his backside.  Oh and since I installed the hardware...this was also my fault.

Clearly girls are a problem for him, and will likely remain so for the rest of his life.