So talented (says mom while trying not to smirk)

Remember how brilliant and awesome my son AJ is? You know, the boy whose teacher can't stop praising his intelligence. The boy who earned near perfect marks on his first quarter report card.

It's a good thing he's not graded on his ability to keep track of mittens.

And that his teacher only pays attention to his knowledge of World War II facts, and not on his skill at putting on a replica World War II helmet.

Because AJ now has a nice cut across the bridge of his nose, caused by this helmet smacking into his glasses, which sliced into his nose.

And no, I can't show you the damage. AJ didn't want his picture taken for this post.

Meanwhile, the same brilliant boy who's way above average in test scores apparently also is way above average when it comes to losing gloves. Remember the story about the $20 gloves we bought him, and then he lost one of them within a day? Out of desperation, because I couldn't find any other matching pair of gloves in the house and didn't have time to go shopping, I lent him a pair of my gloves. Which he lost. Though he's pretty sure they're somewhere in the house. He just has no clue where.

So earlier this week, while shopping, Jeff and I figured we'd be smart. We bought him two identical pairs, figuring one could serve as backup when one or both gloves from the first pair went missing. And within a day, we were down to just three.

 

Jeff threatened to tie them together and string them through his sleeves. Which AJ thought sounded really cool.

 

Thank goodness little sister Sydney is far more alert that her older sibling. She remembered seeing a glove that looked exactly like AJ's out on the playground, she told me. And so today she took it upon herself to go and look for it. And when she found it, she dutifully returned it to AJ's teacher to give to him.

 

I hope he was embarrassed. If he loses another one, I just may have to take a picture of the scab across his nose.