BUSTED!!!!

Today has been a really rough day. After reading 2 blogs this morning belonging to lovely ladies I follow - one I know personally, the day has been in the toilet since. The original rumor was that the next batch of referrals coming from the CC.AA was that it could easily be an 8 or 9 day batch of LID's. March of 2006 saw some of the largest numbers of dossiers for the entire year. Um, yeah...not anymore. Rumor is 2. Yes, 2 freaking days worth of LID's. Not that it bothers me all that much personally because I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we will get our SN referral this spring. But when it affects people you know who have been waiting patiently for 3 LONG years, you hurt for them. When I relayed the info to Lane last week that the rumors were flying that it could easily be a 6-9 day batch, the first thing out of his mouth was, "Well, with the global economy in the toilet, Chin@'s probably doing everything it can to raise money." I know he wasn't serious but I giggled anyhow. I'm so hoping that the rumors are wrong and there are more days being covered in this batch.

So on to the real reason for this post. Eriks pretty much wakes up every morning between 7:20 and 7:45 although he's been known to pull 6:30 wakeup calls (not fun). We go through a routine where while I'm throwing on clothes, he watches TV in our bed. After I'm done, we gather clothes for him to wear to school and head downstairs to get breakfast before getting dressed. Five-year-old boys are notorious for making a mess at breakfast so rather than get him dressed, get breakfast all over his school clothes and thus having to change them again, he eats breakfast in PJ's.

The conversation always starts like this:

Me: Eriks, what would you like for breakfast this morning?

This is how it went this morning:

Me: Eriks, what would you like for breakfast this morning?
Eriks: I want waffles.
Me: We don't have waffles. Oh wait, we have waffles, we don't have syrup.
Eriks: That's OK, you can put chocolate sauce on them.
Me: What? We don't put chocolate sauce on our waffles. We use syrup.
Eriks: Oh yeah! Well daddy put chocolate sauce on my waffles the other day and HE says it's OK!!!
Me: Well daddy's not supposed to put chocolate sauce on waffles. You're having cereal.

BUSTED!!!

Of course Lane and I were talking later that morning when he called me from work and about 30 seconds into the conversation I said, "Chocolate syrup on waffles???"
Lane: Um yeah. He ratted me out did he?? I only did it twice.
Me: Twice!! Once was one time too many!
Lane: Well, we didn't have syrup and I had already made the waffles. What was I supposed to do?
Me: Um, have you heard of putting jam on waffles.
Lane: I guess I could've done that. Didn't think of it at the time.
Me: We don't put chocolate syrup on waffles. That's not breakfast!
Lane: Well growing up my Aunt Donna let her kids have chocolate syrup on their waffles.
Me: Well if Aunt Donna let your cousins jump off a bridge you'd do it to?
Lane: Well if it was a chocolate bridge...

Lane said when he was giving Eriks waffles with chocolate syrup on them, this was going through his head:

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Well. There's your laugh for hump day.

UPDATE: OK, I must confess that I didn't think the whole chocolate sauce thing was that bad. But when I give Eriks pancakes or waffles with syrup, I'm a real scrooge with how much of it I give him. If he had his druthers, he'd have his food swimming in syrup. I have found that he's a complete nut job when he's had a lot of sugar. So I avoid giving it to him or he gets it in small doses. Some of you have met my son and know that he's non-stop on the move. If you haven't and come to GA, you will. I can only handle so much of it.

It's just funny that Eriks approached it the way that he did and said, "Well daddy said so!!"