After double-checking with Leanne, “The Mother of All Things Ironic,” we’re pretty sure this qualifies.

Monday I posted the letter found in 8-year-old MM’s backpack, wherein he explained to his mom and dad that his carpet time probably would have been more wisely spent listening to dreckens the first time than licking his elbow with his buddy, although the general consensus from those commenting was that elbow licking is a fairly impressive feat and it is therefore somewhat debatable as to whether that actually was time unwisely spent as the tone of the note would suggest.

But we could debate the relative merits of joint licking for hours and never make any real headway on the issue.

Monday night I got home from work and my wife showed me this, which she found in the backback of our 7-year-old son.

Ironic?

A smidge.

(You will notice, however, that “Productive” was not checked, which makes sense because he was getting something accomplished, and, admittedly, those arm hairs weren’t going to cut themselves off.)

So it could have been worse.

My real concern with this incident, other than the throttling the hairless-armed kid typically receives in the schoolyard, is that this occured during math instruction.

I fear that Nolan may have inherited my natural aversion to, and complete ignorace of, anything involving numbers, computation, or logic. Like checking account balances. If he goes through life with my mathematical ineptitude, being the hairless-armed kid will be the least of his problems.

But I’m choosing to believe that Nolan was simply disinterested in the task at hand rather than incapable of doing it. I’m also guessing that MM not listening to dreckens the first time can be chalked up to the same.

And apparently, when 7 or 8-year-olds get bored, they use whatever is available to entertain themselves.

Like their limbs.

And their tongues.

And sometimes, even scissors.

But, hey, they’re kids. They’re sapoest to do weird things.