Just like Steve

This week I had to delve into the stocking stuffers I've been collecting for one of the rare moments I bribe my kids. Weston's monthly haircut. I bought a two dollar notebook at Wal-mart and covered it in green paper and drew a red thinking chair on it and saved it to put in Weston's stocking. I told Weston I'd give him a notebook "just like Steve" if he let me cut his hair. He sat still, without complaining, and took a bath. I was hoping he'd forget the bribe so I could use it as a stocking stuffer after all, but he cashed in: "where's my notebook mommy?" I've never seen a kid more thrilled by a two-buck notebook, or any toy for that matter, than Weston was! He said, "Its Just like Steve!" over and over and ran around chanting, "we need our handy dandy... notebook! notebook, eee." (The eee is for the bell sound effect on the show.) He never put it down and even went to bed with it and woke up in the middle of the night crying, "I need my notebook!" I have to hand it to myself, even the girls were impressed with the art work. (I stopped and rewound an episode of Blues Clues at the notebook scene over and over to get it right.)