Devyn Doodle Bug

I love Devyn. He is such a sweet kid and most of the time he is okay if Chris or I call him Devyn Doodle Bug, but his brothers are not allowed to. If you ask him though he prefers Devyn, just Devyn. He does not like nicknames. He does not like to get in trouble and he gets embarassed very easily. Most of you have heard this story, but it is my favorite Devyn story. . .

Pink slips from school are not a new thing in my household. I think that Justin brought home 14 his first two years in school. I typically get several phone calls on my cell phone and work phone to let me know that Justin was in trouble. So when I get a call from the school about my son, I automatically think that Justin got in trouble again. Not so much.

Devyn had been throwing wet paper towels on the bathroom wall at school. As I drove home trying to figure out what kind of punishment he is going to get and try to perfect my lecture on respecting school property, I call Chris for advice. His first response is doesn't he know that he should throw them on the ceiling not on the walls. It was very helpful. So I go home and get ready to start in the lecture until I found out that Devyn had actually gotten the pink slip two weeks before hand, but he was too embarassed to tell anyone. He sat on the wall at school during his recesses rather than bring the note home to sign. Finally his teacher was gone one day, so he thought he would pull one over on the substitute because she didn't know me. He had his friend sign my name to it, since his friend knew how to sign my name. The forgery was pretty obvious when they had signed it "Roobie" It turned out to be one of those mom moments that I just had to shake my head so that I wouldn't laugh and I honestly didn't know what to say.

I did learn that Devyn can keep a secret much better than Justin.