Big Boy

First time with a fork, and he's already a pro! And he would NOT let me help at all!

Tori-isms

Just wanted to share a couple unique Tori moments...

The first happened yesterday. Tori was at Drama to pick her up for dance. I told her she needed to change into her ballet clothes. My students were in my classroom with me when Tori hollers from the doorway..."Mom, get my pants!" All we could see was her arm sticking through the doorway holding her pants.

Needless to say, my students were cracking up as I hurried to shut the door to preserve Tori's privacy. Tori had decided to change clothes right there in the middle of the hallway behind my door. By the time I got to her, she was naked except for her panties struggling into her tights. Oh-my-gosh. Yes, it was hilarious, but she's turning 7 in April! That's just an example of an every day Tori moment. We have just had to explicitly teach Tori to deal socially. Obviously we've got a ways to go in the modesty department!!

And one more...Tori's teacher told me about this one today. Tori was asked to transfer info from one paper to another. Her teacher told her to "copy this". All of a sudden Tori was missing from class. When Mrs. Wibbing found her, she had taken the paper to the office to "copy" it. You've gotta be careful how you phrase things with Tor 'cuz she takes everything totally literally. :)

Teeth

Tori still has not lost that wiggly tooth. But, Tuesday as we were driving to school, Tori said, "Mom, my tooth is coming out!" I was all stressed out thinking, "Oh my gosh, I need to pull over...There's going to be blood" and "What if she swallows it..." I decided to chill out and wait to see what happened. Well, thankfully we made it to school without any incidents of blood or choking and I immediately looked in her mouth....And I was shocked. Here's what I saw, and my reaction was something like, "My kid's a freak!" I guess the new tooth felt weird, and that's why she was falsely reporting the loss...

I proceeded to seek the opinions of several of my co-workers, and none had ever seen this. So, I looked on the net. Evidently, it's not so uncommon, and several kids get rows of "shark teeth". :) I did make an appointment though with her dentist tomorrow to make sure nothing needs to be done. If you look closely, you can also see one of the three molars that are coming in, too. Wow! Those teeth all just came out of nowhere!

Adrion also has five teeth now. I didn't want to leave him out since he's got lots of tooth things going on, too, so here's me trying to get the shot and then getting a semi-successful shot of half of a mad baby mouth...

Yeah, and there's a nice shot of a boogey, too. :)

Charlotte's Web

So I started a drama club for my middle schoolers this year...for the first semester of school, we met once a week with a goal of performing before Christmas. Well, we soon found that once a week was not enough, we should have started with a shorter play, and we'd have to postpone.

We are now scheduled to perform in about 3 weeks. I am still doubtful that we'll be totally ready, but we're performing no matter what this time! This experience has definitely been a learning one. I hope the Music and Art teachers will be involved next year, too...(I am so thankful for Christie and all of her help this year though! I should also mention that Mr. Core was going to help, too, and I'm very sad that he's gone. He is very missed...He had such an active ministry with so many children...)

Anyway, I digress! So Charlotte's Web is back on! Get ready, because stars are about to be born!

Here comes Cupid!

Tori's Valentine box: Can you guess? A pony!

Adrion Michael

2 weeks old...






















1 year old! Happy Birthday, my sweet baby boy!

Why Am I Awake??

My usual bedtime never tends to go past 9ish, but here I am--awake! Okay...so it's only 9:42, but still, I should be crashed out by now. But here I am blogging without really a direction...

I thought I'd be blogging this weekend about Tori's first lost tooth--It's definitely wiggly, but not quite out yet. Maybe at school tomorrow...I always got money from the tooth fairy, but Tori is convinced that the tooth fairy will leave her a surprise. I asked G what he thought, and he said in his very practical way that it'd just depend on what's available. And yes, that makes sense because teeth are unpredictable and a midnight run to Walmart is not exactly ideal for us out here in the boonies. But I think it would be fun for Tori to get a fun "surprise" for her first lost tooth. I'll have to send G to get something special tomorrow so we'll be ready...Is it weird to keep the teeth? Is that kind of like keeping the belly button cord stump? I'm gonna go for weird and keep them...

Another random thing on my mind tonight is birthday parties. Adrion turns 1 on the 9th, and we're having a small family party at Steffey's Pizza in Lavaca. I'm looking forward to seeing him dig in to that first piece of cake! Then Tori's birthday is in April. She'll be 7 this year, and until now I've always done the family party for her, too. But this year I think I'm going for a kid party. I'm also considering having a little sleepover for her afterward. I'll have to send the boys to Spiro or something that night...

And a final thought--Thursday we're taking our 5th graders to Little Rock to tour the capitol building, watch legislation in action, and play at the Museum of Discovery. It will be a long day, but we've got a great group of kids this year, so I'm looking forward to it! Well, I suppose I'll go do some reading now until this second wind goes away. Night night!