Tales of First Grade Part II

Some recent words from my students.

-I'm just confused, I thought our president now was President Monson.

-George Washington was our first president.  Did you know a man shot him while he was at a play?

-Teacher, I have a friend what's in kindergarten and he is so funny.  He got a helicopter for Christmas and he plays with it every weekend.  It's so funny.

-One day teacher, your water will break.

-Why don't you just bring the baby here?  LaDawn will watch it.-About seven of them had this idea.  LaDawn is our school secretary

-Water gets out of your body when you throw up.

-Duh, one day you will have to marry a girl!

January

So I have this little boy who comes to my class from functional skills.  He is autistic, he's hilarious, and I adore him.  Yesterday while he was there for calendar time, we were doing the pledge.  He stared at me oddly the whole time during the pledge and when it was over, instead of joining the class he came over to me and said "You are very full." and put his hand on my belly.  I told you him I had a baby in there.  "You are full of a baby?!?" he asked.  I laughed and he immediately started rubbing my stomach.  Later in the day, he came back during reading groups and immediately just came over and started patting my stomach to say hello to the baby.  He is so cute!  Today anytime he came to my class he would touch my stomach as he walked by and then once in the hall he came up to me and started talking into my stomach.  "Hello baby!" then put his ear to my stomach.  "Baby's not talking.".  I told him he can't talk yet so he told my stomach to learn to talk.  I love it.

In other baby news, I am just shy of 30 weeks and all is well.  I got myself some slightly girly bedding but whatever.  I've actually registered at Target which, I think it's kind of weird to register, but as my sister pointed out, at least that way I can keep track of what I have and what things I've researched and want.  You're all welcome to go buy me all the expensive things though.  :)  Dan and I have our baby names narrowed down and now we're discussing the best middle names.  Child loves to dig his feet into my ribs these days, especially at night.
 

Other than that, things are well.  I had parent teacher conferences today and more tomorrow.  Mostly they're going well.  I've got good kids.  Dan's doing great at work.  He presented his team's wireless power project at an event for the Engineering Dynamics lab the other day.  His was the coolest one there.

That's about all we've got for January.  We're pretty boring.

Dan presenting

 The cookies at the event.  

They were supposed to look like Dan's wireless electric pad.  

(He's pointing to a mini version of it in the other picture.)

Some Leftovers

A few days after Christmas I drove down to my parents for some last hang out time with Anna and Jonah before they headed back to Colorado.  We read books and fed the birds and played around.  Anna wasn't feeling very well and pretty much just sat around.  Jonah was asleep for most of it but when he woke up we had so much fun.  He decided we needed to wrestle which basically means I was lying on the floor and he would come flop himself on top of me and then I'd tickle him and wrestle him off then he'd do it again.  I'm so excited to have little boys.

Once Anna got some medicine in her, she perked right up and realized that Dan was missing and wanted to go look for him.  When I told her he wasn't there, she asked to call him.  She babbled on forever to him about what Santa brought and what she'd been up to.  I'm pretty sure Dan had no idea what she was saying.

 

This one makes me laugh.  What a cute kid!

Mostly he looks just like my grandpa, Floyd.

Also over the break Dan and I did some awesome things like sit around and goof off.  We also had a Lord of the Rings marathon.  And we loved it.

I went and saw my girls (Laura, Janna, and Jennifer) for breakfast one of the days.  And by breakfast I mean eat breakfast and then stay at Kneader's until 1:00.  Both Laura and Jennifer are due with their first babies within about three weeks of me.  I'm sure we annoyed Janna plenty with pregnancy talk and TMI.  But she was a good sport.

This was from about a year ago (I think) as I don't have any more recent pictures of us.

  Janna had had surgery like the day before and look how hot she still looks!

For New Year's Dan and I went with our friends Grizz and Jake and Jake's girlfriend Kyra for like a two hour delicious dinner at Elements.  It was especially fun because we still have some friends that work there so they would come sit with us off and on too.  Then we came back to our house and played some fun games and then I completely passed out on the couch roughly two minutes after midnight while they watched the movie 2012.  No pictures again.

Then lastly for those of you who have been asking for one, some pregnancy pictures.  Right as Dan was about to take the picture, he decided to act like my eight year old brother and do an extremely loud "farfegnugen" which actually made me start laughing so this is what came out for pictures.  (I am a day shy of 26 weeks)

 It took me a while to calm down

 Me trying to be annoyed at Dan for tooting.

Christmas Posts 4

Christmas Day was spent at the Bronson's house.  It's a lot calmer there with only the two little boys to go nuts.

Crew and I waiting for present time.  He is so funny.  We babysat them the next day and he came and sat on my lap then leaned back and wiggled against my stomach exclaiming "Ha-ha!  I'm squishing your baby!".  He also kept trying to get me to take the baby out so he could see it.

Eli was to be seen jealously glancing at whatever happened to be in Crew's hands, several times.  This time it was grandpa's ipad.

Oh did I say it was calmer and only the little boys went nuts...?

Here's Renee with "the booger".

She was really upset by it.

Crew was excited over every present no matter what it was.

He would scream and thrust it into the air.  Sadly, my video recording on my new camera is having some microphone issues so my video of him doing this repeatedly didn't work.

Then he would show everybody what he got screaming out whatever it was.

Eli showing off his present

Quietly playing while he waited for more presents.

Probably the best picture of the day.

Batman...

and Wolverine.

More presents

The jealous look.  I don't even think Eli knew what Crew's present was yet.

Crew and Natalie

Um....

Eli was so excited he wore this shirt for the rest of the day.

Crew.

The rest of the day was spent being lazy and eating a wonderful dinner.  It was most excellent.

Christmas Posts 3

So as the tradition goes at my parent's Christmas Eve Party, we have dinner, a talent show, Santa comes, we also do the nativity, and we open presents.  Santa came early this year so after he left we did the nativity.

Anna was Mary and Tate was Joseph

She was very loving and gave the baby kisses.

Dayton I think was feeling a little shy.  Anna was very anxious about everyone coming.  Before the angel could even tell the shepherds she yelled "Come see the Baby Jesus, Shepherds!".

Dan, Jonah, and I were the wise men.  Dan in his authentic outfit which he has also worn to the grocery store.

James and Jonathan worked long and hard on building us a manger this year.  As soon as we removed the baby Jesus, it collapsed.  Nice craftsmanship boys.

Some lovely attempts at taking a group picture.

The three girls were the angels but I don't know who had my camera and I got no pictures of them.

Jonah checking out the broken manger.

And the ornaments.

Look at those chunker legs!  So cute.

Dan and my mom schemed to get my dad a temperature reader for his motorcycle.  Dan built it.  My dad likes to think he's a weatherman so this was good.

Remember Anna's hesitance to sing to us all?  Once she got the microphone in her hands she stood and sang to us for about half an hour no matter who was listening, loud and proud.  Sadly my video didn't work.

She paused for some cousin love with Jersi

Sam was partied out.

So was my dad.

Christmas Posts 2

So it was the traditional Christmas Eve at my parent's house.  My brothers were there this year as opposed to last year so that was even more fun.

A little action shot of the boys looking excited.  Especially Tate.

Dayton was loving the taste of his fingers that night.

...

She clearly had more interesting things to focus on than her mother.

The girls in the "little room".

More finger lickin' fun.

And more playing in the little room.

This was the great kid's table.  Cheetos were obviously the main course.

Don't mess with this chick's food, but don't get mad if she messes with yours.

She's probably keeping one eye on Jersi while she eats...

Saucy.

Then it was time for the talent show.
Tate sang us a song as per the ush.

The older girls did a dance for about 6 seconds.

Dan and I performed War, What is it Good For?  A La Corey and Topanga.

Anna was in distress about whether she could sing in front of us or not and Tate tried to encourage her.

With some help from mom she managed to sing.

And loved the applause.

Then Jersi needed some convincing.

But quickly grew into the idea, and ate the microphone.

Sam and I did some Beatles polka dancing.

The fingers were still tasting great.

I think that Jameson also played the guitar for us but I can't find the picture.

Then Santa showed up.
Anna has been debating whether or not she is okay with the Santa thing since before Thanksgiving.  See Jonathan's Facebook for a great video.

Here she is scoping him out.

Morrissa

Jersi did not approve.

Me

Jonathan

Jimmy

Kyndi

Dayton's fingers.

Jonah didn't mind Santa one bit.

Sam

Tate contemplating what he deserves.

Stefanie

Kamron who I feel LOVES this part.

Dan... Ya...

Tyson

My father

Anna was getting super nervous by this point.  The anticipation!

My mom

While we waited, Jonah scoped out Dayton.

Jen

More cousin time.

This is the face she made right when Santa called her name.  Jonathan's face is cute too.

Not so much.

But the present calmed her down a little.

Poor Oaklee had to be so patient and was the very last one to have her name called.  What a good girl.

To be continued...