Captain Mom

We have a "prize closet"  (i.e. a cabinet in the laundry room) where we keep small gifts for Cole. When he first started school this year, he could get a prize from the closet if he stayed on green on his behavior chart all week.  By the end of the year, we expected good behavior at school so we stopped using the prize closet regularly. But, I recently picked up a few things because he has summer homework and has chores around the house so I wanted to still be able to reward him for extra hard work.  And the following conversation ensued yesterday:

Me: Cole, please go get the hydrogen peroxide from the laundry room [side note: the medicine cabinet is next to the prize closet].

Cole (back with the bottle): Mom, there was a new Tom & Jerry DVD in the prize closet. 

Me: You weren't supposed to see that.

Cole: But I did see it!

Me: Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Cole: Thank you, Captain Mom!

I've  now decided that I want the boys to address me as Captain Mom all the time.

On another note, is anyone else's 5-year old eating them out of house and home? We don't need to plan for retirement: we need to plan for grocery bills for teenage boys in 10 years. OMGosh - we might go broke.

Yes, that is Cole asking for popcorn after he's eaten 1/2 a bag of red grapes, a bowl full of chips with salsa, a bowl of spaghetti with turkey meatballs, 3 crescent rolls, two cups of yogurt, a popsicle, and a carton of strawberries. And that was just after I picked him up at 3:30.

And yes, this is our sweet Nugget who fell asleep in the car after a very long appointment with the ENT and audiologist WITH A CHICK-FIL-A NUGGET IN HIS MOUTH!!