School-Year Wrap-up: Hyrum

My Hyrum--so wild, so sweet.  I love this kid.

Hyrum had a great school year, and I couldn't be happier with how he grew during his kindergarten year.

He learned to read well, and he learned that he is really good at math.  He learned that students have to raise their hands, even if he didn't always remember to do it.  He learned to help others who needed his help, and he learned that he is a pretty fast runner.

Two recent funny Hyrum-ism:

1. Hyrum called me over to him, enticing me with "Mom, I want to tell you a secret."  I lowered my ear to his mouth to hear him whisper, "Satan's a doofus."

I've been laughing about that one all week.

It took him two days to catch a lizard while we were at Lake Powell.  

2. Hyrum has been keeping the tooth fairy quite busy around here.  Just yesterday he lost his seventh tooth--the kid has no molars in the bottom of his mouth--and when it bled a little too hard and he cried, he quickly gained his composure and said, "At least I've lost as many teeth as Micah now."

On Wednesday evening he shyly walked up to me with his hands behind his back, smiled, then handed me two crumpled dollar bills.

"Where do you want me to put your tooth money?"

"It's for you. You do lots of nice things for me.  I want to do something nice for you."

See?  How can you resist a kid like that?

3. One night he was trying so hard to be completely obedient.  He read me stories, helped Evie clean her room and find her toothbrush; then at bedtime he told me, "I was the bomb today, wasn't I, Mom?"

You are the bomb diggety, Rum.

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