"Hey Harper whacha doin?" I asked sitting next to her on the couch "I'm making a scrapbook of memories" she said happily while gluing something down, the door opened and the Russo's minus Justin cuz he was teaching came in "Oh hey Alex, do you remember making this in kindergarten?" Harper asked Alex while holding up a painting "Nope" Alex said "Exactly cuz yah didn't, I made it so the teacher wouldn't know that yah ditched"
Harper explained "Oh yeah we got that system down pretty early didn't we" Alex said holding out her hand "Yes we did" Harper said slapping it as a high five "why would you keep all this stuff?" Alex asked "it's for my scrapbook of childhood memories, now that we've graduated I can finally complete the last page of my diploma" Harper said proudly "Oh man, that wasn't the last page there's one more page left what do I do?"she asked stressed out
"Here this is the cover of the magazine you read the day you completed you're scrapbook" Alex said ripping the cover off a magazine "Hey scrapbooks are a great idea, can't wait to look back on the time I left the water running in the bathtub" Max said smiling, his face fell "Wait that's right now" he said running up the stairs "Do we have scrapbooks for the kids?"Jerry asked "Well sort of, I've got all their artwork and achievements in those boxes in the hallway, the ones that are labeled Alex, Justin and Max"
Teresa replied "Oh I thought those were suggestion boxes, I've been putting complaints in their about the kids for years" Jerry said, he went out into the hall "So that's why dad stopped complaining to our faces" Alex said "Here are the kids memory boxes" Jerry said carrying in 3 black and white boxes "And their a lot lighter now that I've taken the complaints out of them" Jerry explained "Look Justin's I learned how to crawl certificate that he printed himself"
Teresa said pulling it out of Justin's box "How do you know he printed it?" I asked confused "Because, here's his I learned how to use a printer certificate" Teresa said pulling out another one, wow Justin's a smart dude "Oh here's my award for most absences" Alex said "Uh honey that's not an award that's an angry letter from a teacher"
Teresa explained "Well it says most so I'm calling it an award" Alex said "Uh oh Max only has one thing, it's a receipt for 3 boxes at a dollar 99 each" Harper said reading form it "You paid a dollar 99 for these? What's wrong with plastic bags?"Jerry asked "Well I guess with each kid I saved less stuff" Teresa said "So you didn't save any memories for Max? art projects" Harper asked "They were so messy" Jerry replied "Grades?" "Nobody wants to remember those" "His birth certificate?" "You've seen him what more proof do you need?"Jerry asked, I rolled my eyes "I think Harpers right Jerry, were horrible parents for not saving any of Max's memories"
Teresa exclaimed "Yah know if you wanna be good parents you could start by taking us to a real doctor instead of posting symptoms on the internet and asking people what they think" Alex said from her magazine "Well what are we gonna do Teresa I mean it's not like we can recreate all of Max's work from over the years" Jerry said "Or can we" Harper said in thought, I gave her a confused look.
I was given the job of distracting Max today but it didn't turn out as planned, I ran up the stairs and through the door "Max is comin" I said breathlessly, they panicked and he came through "Hey, what's going on?"he asked crossing his arms "Max you're home early" Teresa said nervously "We can explain everything" Jerry said "I hope so dad, because if Harpers having a fun arts and Crafts class then you should have invited me"
Max said "Well Mr and Mrs Russo I told you to invite Max, you must have forgotten" Harper said "Oh that's right, it's not too late for Max and Cassy to join us is it Harper?" Teresa asked "No not at all come on guy's let's build and ice cream stick house together" Harper said leading us over to the table "Oh you mean like I used to do at summer camp?"Max asked "Exactly" Harper said "Did he go to summer camp?"Jerry asked "Must have been that summer we thought he slept for a week" Teresa said.