Repeating a cycle

The older the kids get the more I feel like a mother. (As if two munchkins yelling "MOM" didn't make me feel mommyish!) Tonight we had hot dogs for dinner. The kids are in a "cold hot dog phase" so I wasn't cooking theirs. Derrick was watching me put the hot dogs on their plates and add some potato chips. I told him to go tell his sister that dinner was ready. The key word "GO TELL", what did he do? You guessed it, he yelled out "Danae!!!!! Dinner's ready, you better come here!!!!!" I glared at him and said "I could've done that". All he did was smile =) this child who never ceases to amaze me has turned me into my mother at times! I find my self saying to my children what I heard when I was a child.

As if that wasn't strange enough, last week was "yellow" week at school with Derrick. He brought home his homework for the week and it had the very same stoplight poem I did when I was in kindergarten 23 years ago! Then for green week they had green eggs and ham....same as I did in kindergarten. I really thought there would be new stuff in a new millenium, I think I was so wrong. But Derrick did pass his first 10 words list!