Breaking the Law and Keeping a Promise

Thursdays are a busy day for my crew and this one was even a bit more eventful than most. K has dance after school on Thursdays so after I bring the boys home and eat lunch we then head back out to pick up K. Well, on our way home yesterday we passed the high school and elementary school like we do everyday except for this time a police man pulled us over. He caught me speeding through a school zone. Let me clarify that it was the high school that was about to start dismissal and once I passed the high school I did not think any more about the school zone and resumed to the normal speed limit. But since it backs up to the elementary school (which was not dismissing for another hour) it is one big school zone. Now, I was completely in the wrong and deserved the ticket but the nice officer only gave me a warning. During all this the kids were very confused and asking tons of questions.

K- Who is in trouble, who called the police?
Me- No one did, Mommy was not following the rules and now I am in trouble.
JW- Can we go now?
Me- No, we have to wait for the police officer to write mommy a ticket and come and talk to me about following the rules.
K- Are you sad?
Me-Yes, I am very sad and Daddy will be too.
K-What is a ticket?
Me- Well, it is kind of like a time out for adults
JW- Hey, he has a walkie talkie like me. Why does he have one.
Me-So that someone can tell him where to go if someone is really hurt and needs his help or if someone is REALLY breaking the rules and he needs to go catch them.
Later that night JW played with his police officer helmet(he is wearing it in the picture above). You wear the helmet and hold the motorcycle handle bars and run around and pretend you are a motorcycle cop. It talks to you and makes siren noises- it is actually a neat toy. But the part that made me laugh was when he kept running through the room and throwing the little "breaking the law" tickets that it came with at me as he passed by.

The other funny of the day came later that night. We are still having a time getting JW to go big stuff in the potty. The other night Brian had him pinkie promise that he was going to get all his big stuff in the potty. Well, last night after he had been in bed for 30 min or more JW called out that he needed to go potty. Brian took him to the bathroom and JW did big stuff in the potty. After Brian was tucking him back in and was telling him how proud he was he asked if he remembered the pinkie promise. JW replied "Yes, and now I get to keep my pinkie". Guess we need to go back over what a pinkie promise really is!