Boys will be boys

I was later than normal dropping the boys off on Monday, and DiDi (Diane) was already at daycare. She normally never gets there until 7:30, so that tells you how late I was running. For some reason she is the favorite teacher of all the kids at daycare. Darren says DiDi more than he says Mom. Anyway, DiDi asked me on Monday if my boys like to wrestle and does Dad wrestle with them. I said that they love to wrestle and yes, Bruce does wrestle with them. He doesn't so much wrestle as he lays there and lets the boys jump on him. DiDi said that you can tell. Not sure what that statement meant, but I have an idea.

When Nathan got out of the shower the other night, Darren walked right up to Nathan, made two fist and punched Nathan in the eyes. He even said "BOOM". Skeeter has no concept of a getting beat up by a bigger kid. Nathan will be sitting on the floor playing nicely, and Darren will just walk up and hit, punch or jump on him. That could be because Nathan does the same thing to him. I may have to enroll the boys in a karate class or something to burn this excess energy.

Then yesterday when Bruce picked the boys up from daycare, he was told by Mary Lou that Nathan was misbehaving. Him and three other boys were wrestling and throwing punches. Nathan swears up and down that he was not throwing punches, and he may be telling the truth. Awhile back he was threatening to punch me in the gut because he was mad at me. I told him that you don't throw punches, and if he did punch me I was going to punch him back. Well, he went ahead and punched me. I punched him back hard enough for him to lose his breath. I then lectured him and told him that there is always someone bigger than him and they can probably punch harder. He has never threatened to punch anyone again to the best of my knowledge. He may be telling the truth, but he was still involved in the scene. His friends are all five or getting ready to turn five so he is the youngest of the group. Either he is a follower, or good at getting everyone else in trouble.