3/22 "I just want go back to bed". From caiden?

I knew from the moment he sat down today was going to be a long day. I made this decision based on many cues but the big one was when he thought he should just move his cereal bowl to his lap because he was to tired to pick his head up! ugh....yep that's how our morning went. to tired to get dressed, to tired to write, to tired to think...imagine my surprise when at about 11:15 he says "I just want to go back to bed". If you know my child you are in as much shock as me. Bed is something to be avoided at all cost read till you have to hold your eyelids up with your fingers, one more trip to the bathroom, dehydration caused by not drinking for 24min. one more drink. I can't blame him, ask my husband, he gets it from me. The later it gets the harder it is for us to fall asleep :/  SOOOO knowing it's going to be a rough one we start language arts, which today I thought would be relatively easy; he was writing a letter to his friend Rhiannon.

 I knew this would not be the case when he looks at me and says " I forgot how to spell dear". To which my reply was "That's a shame I think I forgot I was going to build with you after school work is done." Amazingly he instantly remembered the correct spelling of dear. This stubbornness of his I also cannot hold against him but I don't think I get all the blame for this character trait. There are 4 lines of genetics this particular trait could be blamed on  :) So dragging his feet and definitely taking his time he finished his letter with no free time left. So we start math, his favorite class. He did his fraction worksheet with ease and then I got out his timed math sheet and a noise cam out of the boy that would make you think I just cut his favorite stuffed animal in half! I look at him and ask if there is a problem? To which I get the reply "why do I have to do this again? I HATE them!" HATE is a bad word at our house the lecture goes like this: hate is a very strong word that can easily upset other people and hurt their feelings and you should only use it when you truly feel that way. There are few things in the world to truly HATE. This has also been turned back at me; my own lecture repeated to me followed by I truly HATE timed math worksheets! They make it to hard to think!He did his math drill but left me with something to think about.... science and reading of Who was Queen Elizabeth went quickly. Mainly because that is when I read to him. This is where we break for lunch and just talk. I love to listen to him ramble off his thoughts. Today was a discussion about smallpox(queen Elizabeth brought that on),Poland(Rhiannon is moving there),worms and if it hurts them when the birds pull them apart, how old Connie(a relative from Georgia) is in "regular people years" if she only has a birthday every 4 years and just had her 13th birthday, and how much he would rather go back to bed than finish the school day LOL. I suppose it was worth one more try. On to His reading: one chapter of Sherlock Holmes and I found a better website for kids news: http://www.timeforkids.com/news-archive/all?page=1 . So we hopped on there and read about a new search for Amelia's plane, and a girl that collects bikes and donates them to her local Chicago school where they are given out to kids with good grades and perfect attendance. The school reported it has been a wonderful incentive for the students to try harder. After this LONG HARD day ,it was 2:30, he went to relax in his lego pile and as soon as I am finished on here he plans on looking on the website that goes with his Hero Qwest books. They have mazes and problem solving games! Thank goodness he doesn't have to think anymore today ;)

NO thinking here! LOL