Funny! Ha! Ha!

I have a little comedian in my class.

What does a jalapeño do?

Give up?

It gets jalapeño business!
{get it? all up in your business!}
Another part that made it even more funny was the presentation. As he told the punch line, he did this little shake, like he had to groove with the answer. It wasn't just a one time shake either. I had him tell the joke to at least two others and the shake was always there. :)

This was also the day that a little friend of mine said:
K: Mrs. Snow, I like your rings!
Me: Thank you.
K: Is that your family ring and those are your wedding rings?
Me: Well, this is actually my wedding rings and sure, those are my family rings.(talking about the rings I wear on my right hand)
K: Well, I like your wedding ring!
Me: Thanks. Mr. Snow did good, didn't he?
K: Uh-huh. It looks like a police officer badge!

Some other silly words I have heard....
*spilrs {pronounced spy-lers} are spiders. the job was to sound out the word for the picture
*tetop {pronounced tee-top} is a teapot
*wolfing {pronounced as you would think... wolf-ing} means to throw up. the job here was to spell a word that starts with w.

To finish off this little school post, I'll say that I HAVE A CHICK!!! There are more to come but one hatched today! My assistant was in the room and went to pick up the kids from library early so they could gather round and watch it push out of its egg! (i missed it... but how exciting for my kids!) It was also exciting because now this chick shares a birthday with a kid in class! :) Some names that were suggested for the little guy were: Cody, Brian, and Chick-e Love Diamond.

excuse the blurry picture of a picture

8 months

{I suppose I should post this since we are almost to her 9 month birthday!! AAHHHH!!!}

We don't go back to the doctor until 9 months so we have to wait one more month for a height and weight check (although the scale in the produce area at Wal-Mart says she weighs 15-16 pounds).

On Sunday, February 24, we dove back into foods... with peas. I think it is appropriate to say she didn't really care for them and we got a taste of the faces we were looking for with the other eating adventures. I assured her that she didn't have to love them, or even like them, when she got older as they are not in our family menu. However, peas were on the menu Monday night. She still made some surprised faces and would stick her tongue out with the peas on them as if she were saying 'get these off of here!' Tuesday was peas again. Every day she did a little better and finally got used to them. Did I? Ick. The smell is still terrible. It makes me cringe a little just feeding them her. We made it through a week of peas with no bumpies so we ventured on to squash again.

By the first of March, we noticed Kinley seemed to master holding her own bottle. Where is our little baby going? She is still eating every 4 hours during the day. Sometimes on the weekend she will go a little longer but 4 hours helps keep us on a schedule. During the week, food feedings take place in the evenings. On the weekend, she may get cereal in the morning and later in the day or food in the middle of the afternoon. It just varies weekend to weekend. When eating out one Sunday after church, I tested Kinley on sucking out of a straw. I held some water in it with my finger to see how she would do and she used it like a pro.

Saturday, March 8th, we ventured to Stillwater for a basketball game. The first basketball game Kinley went to, we sat in the suites so it was pretty calm. It was also at the beginning of the season when they were playing non-conference games. This game was the first in the stands, where it is loud and wilder. She did really good though. After half time, we went on a little walk on the concourse and then found a chair tucked in by the stairs to sit down and rock in. After about 7 minutes, she was out. I waited a little longer and then went and stood in the doorway to test if she would sleep through the cheering. She did and continued for another 10 minutes. It was almost like she sensed the end of the games so she woke up to see the end.

Excuse the poor, picture of a picture quality. :)

My School Friends are Growing Up!

Before spring break, I was able to see how much some of my friends have grown.

Being the day before spring break, we celebrated St. Patrick's day. It was a first, but a leprechaun visited our classroom. They are messy little boogers, pulling lots of green things into a pile in the middle of the classroom, turning chairs over, making a pyramid of chairs on top of the table and leaving a leprechaun trail of green glitter all over the place... but left each kid a piece of gold in their crayon pouch. {all of which I did not have to pick up or even ask friends to help clean up. they just started on their own!}

At one point, a friend thought the leprechaun forgot him, which I am positive he didn't. S was telling me this when another friend went over to help him check his crayon pouch. I had also been over to check and definitely didn't see one in there but I let them continue looking saying,"it must be there. He wouldn't leave someone out." {While also going to grab another piece to sneak in there sometime}. When S kind of gave up hope, K looked at him and said, "Here you can have mine. I don't need it." Of course now I need to sneak the piece into her pouch as if the leprechaun knew of her nice deed. So I did.

She turned back to her seat and kept working one her paper. Then, the moment came when she reached into her pouch searching for a crayon. She fumbled around and then it caught her eye (mind you this was merely minutes later) and she looked up with a puzzled look and said, "Mrs. Snow! Guys! A piece of gold!" Some of the kids looked at her like 'duh. We all got a piece.' So I said, "what? You just gave that to S. did he give it back?" She looked at him and tried to ask if this was the piece she just gave him but when she did she saw him still holding the piece of gold and turned in shock to me again. She turned and looked at me again. 

A couple of the kids around her said, "Huh. Why did she get two pieces??" I explained that I had just seen her give her piece away so she didn't have two. We just chalked it up to the leprechaun knowing how selfless she was.

After we returned from spring break, I told her mom of her kind actions and she was very proud of her. She also told me their family made a trap to try and catch the leprechaun but they were unsuccessful. It is so nice to see how much my little school friends are growing up.

Happy Easter

From our little bunnies!

7 Year Itch???

Not in this house, fool!

According to urban dictionary... "The seven year itch is a point that a lot of couples go through. It is the point when you have been together so long that you are tired/bored with your partner, but you have not been together long enough to have accepted the rhythm that is being in a relationship. Some people miss being single and would like a different partner. Other people just miss the freedom of being single and having no strings attached but they do not want another partner. It is a "rough" patch in a relationship."

Hubby and I have been married for 7 years now and there is no itching going on around here. If anything, I love him more everyday. I've said it once and probably will say it a million more times, since it is my blog after all, but I am the luckiest girl to have him.

Back in the day, when it was just me (ie. before Tobie and Kinley came along) he was sweet and lovable, makes me laugh and feel loved. Then Miss Tobie came along. She was a surprise gift from my Boo. And surprise it was... to see how sweet he was with my little pup. A whole new side of him emerged with Tobie. I gave me a glimpse of his as a dad and that made me fall a little deeper. Then... Miss Kinley came along and you might as well throw in the life raft!

Yes, I'm third in line for goodbye kisses and I'm home greetings but seeing him get so excited to see his little girls just melts my heart. His face lights up when she sees him (her face lights up too!)! He loves to make her smile. He also still loves to make Tobie's tail wag, ears perk up or head tilt in listening fashion.

He still cracks me up with his sillies, bad handwriting and more. Loves me like there is no tomorrow. He is my boyfriend for life. Happy anniversary Boo! I love you more than when I said, 'I do.'

In case it wasn't clear... No seven year itch here.

A little random reading

Due to my "motherly duties", as my principal put it to a parent yesterday, I don't venture into the lounge at lunch time. It is quite unfortunate since it makes it hard to contribute to the Sh!t I Hear in the Lounge saga but it is life.

One of the people many of my lounge stories came from contributed while in my room the other day so I'll count that! Not exactly sure how this came out of her mouth but she was referring to when she is walking but toots come out. Apparently, those are called "old lady loosey juicies." I even had her repeat it so it was accurate for the blog!

Back to the principal comment, I had a parent looking for me during lunch. She had knocked on my door, mind you I didn't know who was out there, but then went to the lounge and asked if I was around. He said, "She is in her room." to which the mom responded, "well, I knocked but she didn't answer." That is when he said, "I think she is doing her motherly duties, if you know what I mean." The mom was embarrassed and later told me she felt bad for 'interrupting.' 

I must say, only once have I actually forgotten to lock my door while pumping, but I am so glad no one came down. I have a magnet that props the door open, just a crack, during the day. Well, one day when I finished up, I realized I had not pulled the magnet out! How disastrous would that have been if a kid popped in!!! Now I double check myself before I start. Anywho, it is a good thing that I do because a few times my kids have returned to the classroom, either without my assistant knowing or just not following her directions. You would think when that the boogie man was trying to get them as hard as they pull on the door and bang on it. Again, now I double check that it is locked!

I have had a few funnies from my little friends too! Last week, the meteorologist predicted it to be warm for the day. As we all know, they have a tendency to be wrong. When discussing it with my kids, one said, "the weatherman lies... a lot!" I tried to explain that they don't lie on purpose and that it all depends on mother nature but I don't think they really listened.

Yesterday, I read a short book about squids with one of my talented friends. He did really well reading it on his own but I wanted to reread it with him to see if he comprehended what he had read. In the book, it said that squids change colors to hide from predators and when talking to other squids. I asked him, "what is that word we learned when something blends in with its surroundings?" He said, "It's camel-lodging. I think." Real close buddy! At least he got the idea! We also read that squids squirt ink to help them hide from predators. He asked, "Where does the ink come from? Maybe his butt?" I told him that was a really good question but maybe next time he could say bottom. Then a friend that had been listening chimed in and said, "or bum! Remember it was in our word family?!"

I better hit the hay... one more school day and then it is spring break!

Wednesday Randoms

What should I be doing on this late Wednesday... almost Thursday?? Report cards. What am I doing instead? Anything but report cards, hence this post.

My little friends have been precious at school lately. Mrs. Chambers, the sub I had while on maternity leave, is now next door subbing for first grade. My kids love her so much. She is a celebrity to them. "I saw Mrs. Chambers!" "Mrs. Chambers waved at me!" or "I gave Mrs. Chambers a hug!" are statements I hear almost daily. It is so refreshing to me to know they started out the year in such good hands... or they are relieved to see her and hoping she will come back so their mean teacher will leave? Hmm. :)

Yesterday, I was doing a little report card testing when a student came over and patted my back. Of course, I said, "That feels so good. Thanks." Just that comment lead to telling them the difference in a massage and a masseuse. We may have to practice the difference a little more. Hehehe!

Well, I have put off report cards long enough. Though this post was super uneventful, I need to do the report cards.