I learned yesterday while picking Christian up for school, that he has his first "girlfriend".

Apparently he's confessed his love for her (he told his teacher, "I love Julia."), they held hands the entire day, and even ate lunch together.

Christian also shared his love for food with Julia as he got her to eat her entire lunch, which has never happened.  It's nice to know that my boy is a good influence, at least when it comes to food.

Last night we also learned that Christian is learning the art of smart-assery.

After Manny's baseball practice we made a McDonald's run as I didn't prepare anything in advance for dinner.  When we got home we let the kids eat in front of the tv (a super rare treat).  They watched Boomerang in the play room, while John and I ate in the front room.

Christian came to hang out with John and I when he finished his food.  He crawled up onto the couch accidentally knocking over John's drink.

I should mention that John has had horrible luck with his drinks in the past week, someway or other they manage to get knocked over or spilled.  So John was not too pleased with Christian's mishap.

Christian immediately started apologizing, "I'm sorry Daddy.  Sorry.  It was an accident."  Then followed up with, "But you should have moved your drink."  This smartass comment immediately melted John's icy veneer and my straight faced husband (who prides himself on being able to hold "character" and discipline our children) smiled and started laughing.

Five minutes after Soda Gate, Christian asked me to help him with his happy meal toy.  It was a spin top and he couldn't figure out how to get it to work.  I started to help him by attaching the top to the spinner mechanism (you need to push the top onto this pen-like contraption, and turn the top to tighten the tension, then press a button which releases the top onto the floor).

My first attempt failed.  I tightened the top too much, so it popped off into my hand.  Christian said, in all seriousness "Mommy, you need to practice more."  I looked to John and said, "Well, I guess we know who our smart ass is."