"I want to win!"

Luckily, this was a quote today by Matthew and not Samantha or Jacob. Matthew asked to play a Tonka race car computer game that I had set up for the twins to play together yesterday. He said that he didn't want Josh to play, and then he said something that I thought was very profound.

“I want to play alone because I want to win.”

I had to laugh, especially because of my last post and the slim odds that either Samantha or Jacob had with their election for the school council. Yesterday the school grades had an assembly so the candidates could introduce themselves. My kids said that there were 12 kindergarteners for the 1st grade position and 42 second graders for the 3 3rd grade positions. Good thing we have been talking about how we were just doing this for fun.

As I mentioned before there has really been no information about anything. Samantha is the one who said she might have to go from class to class to introduce her self. But then next day she said their might be an assembly. Samantha was dressing in her best outfits for 3 days and nothing ever happened. Jacob had no clue what he needed to do, so I tried to prepare him. I talked to both kids about good things to say when they got up to the microphone but I never could get either one to commit to a practice session.

Jacob and I had a good 5 minute talk about his good qualities: that he is a good friend, he can serve the school, he is big so the 5th graders might listen to him as he represents the 1st grade, that he wants to help solve problems…

Here is what he said, “My name is Jacob. I am big.” That was it, and he sat down.

Samantha had a cute little dialog planned out, but we made the mistake of not writing it down. So here is what she said:

“Hi, I am Samantha...”

Then she just paused and just stared at everyone. She didn’t know what to say, so she just didn’t say anything at all. After a minute, finally a teacher whispered something in her ear so she just repeated what she said and then sat down.

Back in their class rooms they got to vote. Samantha said that she voted for herself. Jacob voted for one of his other friends. Then today after being home for awhile Samantha casually mentioned that she didn’t make it on the school council. No big surprise, but she didn’t even know who the 3 people were that were picked. As we were talking, Jacob over heard some of our conversation.

He said,”Oh yeah, I was suppose to go to the office…I heard them announce all the Coyote Council to go to the office- but my teacher didn’t tell me to go.”

We had to break the news to him that he didn’t make it on the council either, and it took a minute to sink in, he actually looked confused. Apparently, he thought they were going to tell them next year. At least both kids didn’t take seem to care, so I am glad we were only doing it for fun.

Tomorrow is the last day of school, so we are getting excited for summer! Now that Jacob will be home I guess Matthew is going to have to wait to take his turn on the computer especially if he wants to keep playing by him self. There is no way he will win against Jacob who holds all the high scores.