Friday Corey called their house phone. Bailey I guess, picked it up. Corey asked to speak with me (first). He told me that he was going to ground Jayden for a month and went on to tell the following story; the best I remember it.
Jayden has a classmate both in school and in church that he can’t stand. Her name is Isabel. (sp) She, according to Jayden, drives him nuts. He hates/hated her. (After this I hope he is seeing her through different eyes.)
It got to whenever she would get near him in school, he would call out something about "Isabelitis."
Some of the other boys caught on and started saying the same thing and one boy, I forgot his name, started saying, “Isabel kisses girls on the mouth.”
I think there were other things said too.
Anyway, Corey wanted me to be aware of what was going on and be prepared when Jayden went nuts about the grounding.
Corey had gotten a call from Stacey.
I put Jayden on the line and Corey started talking. Jayden took it better than I was afraid he would but he was not happy when Corey accused him of doing all the things. At the time it was believed it was just Jayden…but it was him who got the ball rolling.Stacey who heard about it first wanted him grounded from football for the summer.
Following is the e-mail Stacey sent at my request telling the story as she saw it.
"Ok, so the story goes like this, Jayden and Isabel do not like each other they never have. They just don't get along, so me and Isabel' s mom have been telling them both for three years now to just stay away from each other, well I guess they couldn't take it any more Jayden started a thing called Isabel-itis whenever Isabel would come near Jayden or touch something Jayden would yell "Isabelitis" out to the class. I guess she couldn't take it anymore she has been going home in tears. Her mother finally called and told me what was going on, needless to say I was so mad I wanted to ground him for a month luckily I was at work and had time to cool off, by the time I had gotten home Corey had made a plan. He made Jayden make Isabel cookies and was getting him ready to go over and say sorry to her and her parents. So we went over to do the deed and it was not easy for Jayden to do this, but it needed to be done. After it was done I turned to Isabel told her I loved her gave her a hug and told her that when boys come into this world they're not completely put together and that I was still working on him. She laughed hugged me back and we left. Hopefully we won't have any more issues. But we probably will. (Hopefully that’s what you’re looking for Fred) you can put this on your blog if you want."
Stacey also said that both Isabel and Jayden were red-faced and looking at the ground but that after Jayden apologized, Isabel said, “Thank you Jayden for apologizing.”
