What's in a name?

I thought Mischiefmaker#1 was a pretty unique name when we selected it for the kid...turns out a couple hundred other parents who had kids 5 years ago thought so too.

This year, Mischiefmaker#1 has TWO OTHER kids with his name in his class!!!

Mischiefmaker#2 has at least 2 kids with Mischiefmaker#1's name in his school too...and on the playground, parks and in the mall, I keep hearing all these other parents call at my boy...only they're calling their own Mischiefmaker!

at least we know only ours is pronounced the ways ours is...ha!

hmprph!!

Cheating already...

So, two hours before Mischiefmaker#1's kindermusik class, I look in the activities book and recall we hadn't done the homework. Augh! I am so unprepared for this stuff. I'm usually scrambling about with homework assignments and its a once a week class! What will I do when the boy is in kindergarten next year and when he starts getting daily homework!?!

Pick up the boy from school and take him to run a few errands and pick up an afternoon snack. Get home. The assignment is to make a sculpture. Too late to be brewing a mixture of paper mache this late in the game. Hmmm. Tin foil IS and option, I read! Ah ha!!

Short cut. I am queen of short cut. I take an old toy car, Mischiefmaker#1 and I wrap tin foil over it. Together we roll two wheels each out of tin foil and stick them on our car and finish up our work of art with a final layer of foil. Voila! A sculpture of a car.

In the SUV on the way to class, I grill Mischiefmaker#1,

Me: So Mischiefmaker#1 when the teacher asks you what materials your sculpture is made out of, what do you say?
Mischiefmaker#1: I don't know. Sculptine.
Me: No, you say "aluminium foil"
Mischiefmaker#1: Amoomima froil
Me: No. Just say Foil
Mischiefmaker#1: Okay, Foil

This is not a good start for the grueling after school homework process. The boy isn't even 5 yet and I'm doing his assignments for him and coaching him on covering it up!

I am such a bad mom! Better not let TriniD read this post.