Booggers part 2

Well after my crazy experience yesterday I decided that I wanted to stay away from boogers for awhile! Let me tell you that lasted for about an hour this morning! We were in chapel and I noticed one of my students holding his nose. He gets bloody noses a lot, so I wanted to make sure that he was ok. He said that he holds his nose so it stops running, but he thought there was something up his nose. I told him that we could get a tissue when we got back to class....well the next thing I know I feel a tap on my side! I look over and there is my little first grade boy holding the biggest booger I have ever seen! He had an accomplished smile on his face for getting the obstruction out of his nose, while I was trying to hold back from gagging! I got up and got a tissue for him, gave it to him, and then he gave it back to me when he was done cleaning it up...giggling and all! When I asked him why he gave me the tissue back he said that he did not want to hold that....(well I did not want to either, but oh the joys of being a teacher) at least he did not eat it....blah :P

Boogers

Today at Grace Camp (my after school program), I was completely grossed out! Now I can pretty much take anything little children do from throw up, blood, spit up, poop, accidents in their pants....anything, but today I discovered something that makes me gag! One of the three year old boys stood near the door with his hand over his mouth. This was rather odd for him, since we are usually telling him to stop running and sit down :), but not this time. I went over to him and asked him if he was ok, and he just looked at me. I took his hand down from his mouth and noticed that he was chewing on something. I asked him what he was eating and he laughed....hhhmmm....definetly suspicious! I asked him again and started to tickle him when he bursted out while laughing "BOOGERS"!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT?!?!?!?!? I asked him again and he picked his nose and ate a booger!!! I could not believe it, I did not know what to do! I told him that was gross and full of germs and that is why we do not eat our boogers. Obviously he could care less about my germ lecture and began to walk around the room with his fingers up his nose. Ok, just another day at Grace Camp :) I love my job!

Pumpkins

I wanted to do some decorating for fall, but honestly my mind and decorating excitment in all on Christmas! I am so excited to decorate for Christmas!!!! But it is only fall, and so Luke and I decided to get some pumpkins and carve them. I have never carved a pumpkin before. Luke showed me all that I needed to do; carving the top out, gutting it (gross at first), baking the seeds, and then carving your picture. We had fun! Luke carved the symbol from his school, and I carved Luke & Becca. They came out cute, and the seeds are so delicious!

This was my first look inside the pumpkin....yeah, it was FULL of guts :P

Luke working hard.

The final product!

Riley and her pumpkin :)

So now my apartment is somewhat decorated for fall, and I am so ready for Christmas :)

Girls

At the end of each school day if we have time and have done all our responsibilities first, then my students get "free time". This has been really fun, and allows the students to enjoy their classroom without all the usual classroom rules. They have fun, and I love playing with them. Today however, was a little different. One of my girls brought in a coloring book, and was so super sweet to share it with the other girls. So they all got out their crayons, grabbed pillows and made a coloring club. They laid out their crayons and organized them into colors and everything. It was cute to watch.

On the other side of the classroom were my seven boys.........and they are all boys! I love them all to pieces, but they are active and competitive. One of the boys threw something across the room and before I knew it all the other boys trampled over girls to find what was thrown. The girls were fine, and no injuries............. so I thought! The girls stood up gave the boys an evil look and began to cry! Yup, cry! The girls were looking at me waiting for me to punish the boys and the boys were looking at the crayons that are now scattered all over the place. I asked the girls if they were hurt, and why they were crying and the reply I got was that they were ok, but there is a blue crayon broken and it was their favorite color! The boys then looked at the girls with a "are you kidding me face" and quickly put the crayons back in order so they could resume playing. This made me laugh, because that is such a boy/girl thing. Luke often looks at me when I am saying how sad something is, or why I am upset over "little" things. Girls are so different (and better) then boys.

Poor girls, they survived free time, and did get a new blue crayon to replace the broken one :)

"I love you"

This year is full of balancing! I am very busy at school and also the after school care director. With all that and being a wife, I have a lot on my plate. I am loving every minute of it! My students this year are so much fun! I forget how little they are when they first start out, and I love watching the process of them growing into first graders. Today we started the day talking about what we were going to focus on as far as our behavior goes....and that is as far as it went...just talking about it :) my wonderful students are still working on the putting it into action part! As we had another talk about everything we just talked about, it was time to go to Chapel. I took a deep breathe and asked them to line up quietly, (although I think they did not hear the quietly part), when I felt this tap on my arm. I turned around and bent down eye level to one of my little boys. He looked at me in the eyes and said "ummmmm.....I love you". It was so precious, and definitely made my day :) Praise the Lord for precious children that I have the privilege to teach and be with each day!

Update

Well hello there :) I know things have been crazy, but they are starting to iron out a little. School is great! I have a completely different class then I did last year as far as the type of students. They are so much fun, and I am already seeing them grow! It is amazing how fast they grow! The after school program is going well. We have tons of students, and this year we opened it up to the three year old! I know that does not sound like a big deal, but there is a HUGE difference between a four year old and a three year old who has never been to school before.

I do not know if you guys have seen "Daddy Day Care" before but it is great and you should see it! Also, there is a seen in the movie where the Dad's have this one little boy who wears a red flash costume, and no matter what he will not take it off. About half way through the movie the Dad's find the costume laying on the floor and think they have lost the little boy! They run frantically around the house trying to find this little boy when one of the Dad's spot some strange child in the kitchen eating cookies. They realize it is the little boy who use to wear the costume! It is funny. All this to say that we have a little boy in Grace Camp (the after school program) that comes in keeps his bright red back pack on and sits by the door. He tells me over and over again that he is ready to go, and I reply over and over again that I am happy he is all ready, but him mommy is not ready to pick him up. He is sneaky; one time he walked right out of the room towards the door, because he was going to go home! One afternoon someone asked where he was and my friend and I looked at each other then at the door expecting him to be sitting there, but all that was there was his back pack!!!!! You can imagine our feeling as our hearts jumped to our throats with the thought of losing a child! We looked around for maybe a minute, and noticed he was in the middle of the floor playing with the power rangers! He did not have his bright red back pack on and NEVER goes beyond the door, so we were freaking out. Now he is getting better and better at playing with the other children and no longer needs to sit by the door :)

On a fun note, Luke bought me a new car!! I LOVE it! It is a 2001 Toyota Forrunner! I will post pictures later, for now I am going to bed! Good night :)