Mikey has a best friend named Zach. They have plans to build a dinosaur museum after they become famous paleontologists. Did you know there has never been a complete skeleton found of the Seismosaurus, a Sauropod that may have been the largest dinosaur to walk the earth? Mikey knows, and so does Zach. They plan to unearth the first complete Seismosaurus skeleton and use the reward money (?) to build their museum. On top of supplying and managing the exhibits, they will also be chefs at The Dino Diner, the world’s first and only restaurant inside a museum. (Not really, but I’m not one to crush dreams. I’ll leave that to the high school guidance counselors.)
Zach is funny. Zach is smart. Zach is athletic. Zach likes dinosaurs and BeyBlades and Star Wars. In Mikey’s eyes, Zach can do no wrong except for one thing. He is also best friends with Emma. You know. Emma. And for all his book smarts and analytical skills, Mikey can’t see the draw.
“Mom. Today Emma wanted us to go play on the swings. WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?!”
“Mom. Emma always wants to sit next to Zach, but we can’t work on our museum blueprints with her sitting in the middle!”
“Mom. Emma thinks she knows everything. She doesn’t even listen to me when I tell her she’s wrong.”
One year later, and he still has no clue.
With the school year winding down, there are rumblings of future playdates and trips to dinosaur museums. Zach says he wants to invite both Mikey and Emma, since they are both his best friends. Mikey took the news in stride.
Oh goodness Jules. And when they are 16, they will post a sign in the basement (currently home to hand-me-down couches and the xbox) that says “Welcome to the Boom Boom Room – sexy girls welcome” I kid you not. :-)
Julie
Hahahaha! :)
OMG…I love the flame hair!!!
That’s the best part! :)
This is cracking me up! You’ll have to remind him of this in 10 years when all he can think about is girls.
I can’t wait for that day. It’s why his love/hate relationship with Emma is so funny to me.
Is that supposed to be a picture of a girl, or a zombie-like creature to scare them away? :)
It’s always interesting, the differences between kids. My sons both play with girls a lot. My eldest’s “best” friends are boys, but he runs with a crowd at school that is equal numbers, boys and girls (they recently started their own Harry Potter Club, and he regularly brings home assignments from other club members-and does them!). Perhaps some of that is because he has a younger sister, and they have become quite good friends and playmates, or because most of our friends happen to have daughters, so he’s been forced to get to know a lot of girls if he wanted someone to play with.
I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be, but I know it’s less disturbing than the rough draft I found last week, which had some sort of flaming Pirate’s dagger going through the eye socket. That one had a lot of fire. This, coming from the boy who draws me psalms. O_O
I’m with Heather–love the flame hair! :)
All I’ve got to say is I hope they allow girls (old girls, if nothing else) into their museum and Dino Diner; seeing a complete Seismosaurus skeleton would be awesome. Oh wait, if they’re getting reward money that must mean the Seismosaurus is at another museum. Oh well, awesome all the same!
Mikey is under the impression that they will get money AND keep the dinosaur. He’s an optimist. ;)
I SO needed a laugh this week. Thank you!!!
Mom. Today Emma wanted us to go play on the swings. WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?!�
That is a good question, Mikey. An invitation to swing may be just that, or it may not…
�Mom. Emma always wants to sit next to Zach, but we can�t work on our museum blueprints with her sitting in the middle!�
LOL – EXACTLY!
�Mom. Emma thinks she knows everything. She doesn�t even listen to me when I tell her she�s wrong.
And she never will. :)
I can’t decide which I like best – although it might be the first. Smart Mikey – there is often an underlying motive. :)
Emma also had the audacity to tell him that she was joining his “Illustrated Classics Book Club” but wasn’t going to read any of the books. She was going to be social. Mikey almost had an aneurysm over that one.
Hahahahaha! I love him!
Me too! And I think I love Emma as well! Clearly a girl who knows (and is not afraid to speak) her mind. I hope she holds onto that!
Oh that is too awesome – the flaming haired banshee and strike through the ‘O’. I want to put a sign like that on my door, just for the day – no graduates. Wonder what age it happens that girls will be asked to stay, and never leave?
Hah! I’m sure my mom wants the same sign. :) There is one little girl in class that he is “going to marry,” but I think he says that because he is parroting the girls. He is clueless!
“…She doesn�t even listen to me when I tell her she�s wrong.” My husband can empathize, hah!
That’s my favorite one. It’s like he doesn’t hear himself speak. So, you are accusing a girl of being a know-it-all because she doesn’t swallow everything you, a confirmed know-it-all, tries to sell her? Brilliant.
Goodness me. That is adorable. My 3 year daughter is the “Emma” in her relationships. Child refuses to play with other girls! Totally perplexes the boys. She’ll break out in a “Hulk SMASH!!!” with the best of ’em. LOL!
That made me laugh out loud, alone, in a parked car at Nico’s preschool. :)
“No Girls”, two words that sing to my ear.
So great! That flame hair! My son (7 1/2) is quite the opposite. Maybe it’s from having a big sister (and they’re very close.) Since kindergarten, the girls sort of swarm him and love to play with him. For his birthday that year, he had a co-party with his best friend, a girl. That said, he tries to “punch” us if we ever dare to tease or inquire if one is his girlfriend. :-)
Um, Mikey’s going to be wicked pissed when he finds out your posted his business plan on the web for everyone to steal.
GOD, MOM. (I hear that about 234 times a day.)
So good! That hair!
You should scan it at some point. We have some of D’s little brother’s best stuff scanned and emailed to ourselves (and sometimes then forwarded to several friends) so that we never lose it. Some of his pieces grace cubicles across the country. He’ll thank us when he’s older.
LOL – oh my goodness this entire thing is all kinds of awesome!