April to MAY!
OK holy busy. I mean 4 field trips, Nana coming back, parks, pools, cleaning, planning, organizing rethinking, BUSY. We have been non- stop for a month, so when I just looked back to see my last post I realize it was a MONTH ago! I know I cam at this gungho, but I tell you I am just praying for that 365 to appear and you know what? It is fast approaching. 42 more days! Anyway in the past few weeks I have been getting my room ready for the summer, I will be switching rooms next year and CAN NOT WAIT, the room I am going into is gorgeous....even brighter and cleaner if that is possible! I love the way it is set up and can not wait to put my own flare into it. My new para and I are settling in nicely and are counting the days until school ends. Not for any negative reasons, just because we want to start fresh with our new class. I will retain 3 of the children I already have and get 4 more from Mr. Franken my Pre-k counterpart. I adore working with him! My room is being moved next to his to encourage more co-teaching. Fine by me!
I won a cool award recently. We have something called the Teacher Depot here. It is an old school that has been converted to a warehouse almost, full of new and recycled materials. Picture the hugest yard sale ever, but everything is free. They open this up a few times a year and it is mass chaos I have heard. Well my cadre ( please don't ask its like a mentor, so hard to explain), got me a ton of bottle caps and I had the class recreate Eric Carle's butterfly with the caps and then I hot glued them to foam board. I entered this in the competition for best use of recycled materials, and I won! So I got to go to the wearhouse and go in alone for 30 or so minutes and grab what I wanted, before they released the next runners up to come shop with me. They then opened it up to the 100 people who entered their pictures or work. It was very overwhelming, I thought I would have a panic attack!
Ok so about the kids...
Baleigh was out of school for an entire week after she lost a fight with a palm frond. Apparently they have shark teeth like razors at the base of them that are rather dangerous and she unfortunately stepped on one. The cut was on an angle and deep, but due to the way it was sliced they would not stitch it, only glue it shut.
Payton has thoroughly enjoyed having Nana here, she gets to go out and explore and do so much without having her siblings around, she loves this! Yesterday she went to the jump zone and had the time of her life, meeting several little girls her age their with very nice mommies according to Nana.
Jasper is off and running, literally. He has been walking steadily now for over a month. It is insane to see him go from this black haired peanut....to an amber blonde running giggling mess of fun!
The pool was closed after easter and did not reopen until last weekend. We have practically lived their since and I am turning brown as a biscuit and loving it, heh, I wear SPF8...oil...and I Reapply! The kids wear spf 90 and still are almost as brown as me! Jasper loves his "pink cadillac" and frequents the pool as much as we do! I have to admit, his nap time is quality tan time for me and super play time for the girls. There is no jumping in the pool when Jas is there, so nap time is fun for all! As for this lovely weekend, mothers day is here and unfortunately (for my selfish ass), my husband has been called to duty on base for " Fallen Hero". A soldier is returning home to his family today....in a box :( What a horrible thing, I will have to do a workout today in his memory. I will find something I can do. Today though we are going to the museum hop in Jax. Cummer museum and MOSH are the two we will hit up. It is free and Nana will be my copilot today! We are meeting up with her friends for lunch at River City Brewing Company by the MOSH museum. I will be starting a new version of PALEO on Monday called the Whole 30...so as my last cheat meal I will be having fish and chips today for lunch. Sunday for mothers day Josh works, but we celebrated Mother's Day last night. We gave Nana her nook cover that the girls and I made for her. The pink leather breast cancer cover and we fabric glued NANA to it. This is an inside joke....just appreciate how cool it looks and don't worry about the joke. We will start our Mother's Day skyping Mimi and then head to church. Tthe girls are excited to show Nana the church and the area of their new school. We will then go to Blue Fish my FAVORITE place ever, for brunch. We will then go to the park in the area and enjoy the beautiful day! That is the plan anyway. We shall see how long the kids hold up! Happy blogging people...and hopefully I will get a chance to blog before the end of the school year!
