What are Little Girls Made of?
Sugar and spice, And everything nice,
That's what little girls are made of.
How do little girls celebrate the coming of the new year? With a tea party of course. We are incredibly dainty and refined. We sip hot cocoa and nibble on cookies. How feminine!
Aunt Julia is a lamb to host this event. The girls look forward to it every year.
What are little boys made of?
Snips and snails, And puppy dog tails,
That's what little boys are made of.
How do little boy celebrate the coming of the new year? By lighting their gingerbread house on fire, obviously! They wanted to blow it up with fireworks a la Bishop Breinholt, but unfortunately Mom got the wrong kind of fireworks. (Who knew they made some that just exploded in confetti ?) So, they had to make do. 
These boys unfortunately inherited the pyro gene from their father (who gleefully documented the entire event in pictures). Do not even get me started on Chad, his friend Nate and the shudder-inducing aftershave grenade incident. Let's just hope Aaron and his friend Jeremy stick to food fights in the cafeteria. Oh it's been a long month. Let's just say that I now count Mrs. Saucedo, the sixth grade principal, among my closest friends because we have recently gotten to know each other so well. :)
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6 comments:
the fire is totally cool
What is it with boys and fire? I can't even have a candle in the house without Josh playing with it.
Pyro genes always come from the dads. That is really funny that they wanted to light their candy house on fire, now admit it!
Benson at career day wrote down that what he wants to be when he grows up is a pyrotechnician, "you know, they do firework shows, mom!" Yeah. I know.
I think we may have to adopt the burn the gingerbread house tradition. My boys would LOVE that! When I was young, my family would burn the Christmas tree. It was always amazing how fast and hot it would burn. We usually accidently left an ornament so we have a few charred ones. Good memories.
Great post, Julie! I love the contrast between the tea party and the firestarters. I'm not sure I want to get to know the principal as well as you do though.
Julie you'll have to get the full details from Chuck but we had perfect (meaning exciting but not too dangerous) explosions this year. I believe the tools are called M70s and are possibly not sold in the city (probably meaning illegal).
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