Jake Thomas

So I have introduced my dog....now the kids. I am going to start with my 3rd born...Jake Thomas. He is 6 years old and in the 1st grade. He is my BOY! He is active....always getting into something and can lose focus in milisecond. This kids can find something shiny where ever we go. If you ask Jake to go get you his shoes...it will take at least 3 trips to the mud room for him to actually get them. He is side tracked easily to say the least. The only place that he keeps complete focus is on the soccer field! He is a machine!!! He is all about the ball and scoring goals. He is going to be good someday...you can see it.
The reason I chose to start with Jake is because he was the one that I posted about today. I actually post about Jake a lot. Jake is notorious for doing things that no other kid does. It comes naturally for him....not sure that is a good thing. Jake and his lack of clothing issues have always made for good posts as well. The kids does not like underwear. I have had notes home from school asking me to make sure he wears it....he has also come home with his underwear in his pocket. He didn't like the way it felt. This is probably because he usually has it on backwards. I can imagine that it feels pretty bad. At one of his parent/teacher meetings in Kindergarten the best thing that she had to say about Jake was not that he was a great student...or way smart....but that she was THRILLED that he was keeping his underwear on. That was it! I kept asking if she had anything else...but nope...all about the undies. This is Jake though and all and all I was pretty glad that he was keeping it on too.
Now Jake is very into things that he thinks are hilarious....like poop and farts. Today he had an assignment for science that had him do a scavenger hunt for solid materials in his house. He had to look for something that could float and something that could sink. Just guess what his answer was...POOP! He also wanted to make sure that his teacher knew that you could use poop for both answers because you never know what kind of poop is going to come out. This is true. There was a part of me that really wanted him to change his answers....but I know Jake, and this was the best answer we were going to get. He was confident in it...I wanted him to feel good about doing it all by himself. So tomorrow he will go to school with the answer of poop on his homework paper.
I will also say that Jake taking in homework with poop answers will probably not even phase his teachers. Last year Jake proved to me that you can not say anything to him because he will repeat it. For example...one day I was fussing at my 10 yr old daughter on the way to school. When they got out of the car, Jake went in and told his teacher that my yelling was making him very sad. When he came home that day he shared with me that he said this to his teacher. Well..I wasn't too thrilled about him saying that so...in joking....I said to him that he should tell his teacher that his Mommy was PMSing and that is why she was yelling. As you can guess...Jake went in the next day and told his teacher what I had said EXCEPT he left off the P and told his teacher that the reason that I yelled was because I have MS. She wrote me a very nice letter that day and offered to help me with whatever I might need and said she of course knew why I might get upset...I mean hell...I have MS right!! It was hilarious and so embarrssing at the same time. I wrote her back explaining that Jake meant to say PMS...we both got a laugh and Jake certainly made a name for himself with her.
This is Jake -Trouble...funny....smart....athletic....trouble.....adorable and mine. We love him and he totally entertains us. You are going to love him...I guarantee it!