Catching up!

Today was not the best of days. (Bear with me, it gets more positive!)  I didn't have nearly enough planned and felt overwhelmed trying to get by with what I had.  I'm not the most prepared for this class each day because I don't really have a lot of materials or resources and am just using a lot of what I am able to borrow.  A parent complained about the homework being too easy.  Honestly, it is.  It was printed off for me by the 1st grade team and nobody else has complained about it especially since it is the first couple of weeks that are really easy and then it gets more involved.  She wants more homework.  I don't get paid enough.  It's just frustrating the amount of time and money I put into this classroom for such a small amount of pay.  I'm attending a CGI math training tomorrow.....for no pay.  Everyone else gets paid.  I need the training so I'm going.  I want to go actually and it will look good on my resume but it's all day.  8-3:30.  So after all of this and the stress of today I got home and our new cd got here a day early.  I jumped out and told the kids to stay put and opened the package and put it in and we sang at the top of our lungs to Gracie's favorite song, Where I Belong.  It is a christian song and we love it.  Take this world and give me Jesus.  This is not where I belong.  I absolutely needed that reminder after today and all the negativity that I was/am feeling.

This is what happened this week.


Last weekend Andrew lost his bottom right (2nd from middle) tooth.  Then 2 days later he lost his top left middle tooth.  

And then last night (Thursday) while we were still at school getting ready to attend a retirement party for Andrew's teacher from last year, he pulled his other top middle tooth!  I just keep looking at him and asking him to smile and say words that sound funny with no front teeth!  He will never again be cute without his front teeth so I am taking lots of pictures and making him laugh as much as I can.  The best part!??!!?!  School pictures are next Wednesday and he won't have his 2 front teeth!  I'm so excited!!!!!

 Here is a picture from this morning with his loot from the tooth fairy!  He usually doesn't get that much but after 3 teeth in one week he deserved it!  Just waiting for another bottom side tooth to come out. It will probably come out in the next few days!

And just so we don't leave Grace out of all of this.  Here is a writing sample from school that she did yesterday.  Her teacher hung them on the walls.  I love it!  Her b is backwards and the whole thing is just so cute!  They copied what the teacher wrote.  She didn't come up with that on her own, in case you were ready to call her a genius!

She loves school and apparently has a little boyfriend.  At first all she knew about him was that he wore brown shoes and they were friends.  I guess when you wear uniforms you have to find something to remember your new friends by ;).  Finally she learned his name and then I found out they like to hold hands and he even asked the teacher if he could hold her hand in line and not stand in his regular spot.  She told him no but it was cute!  I told her no holding hands on the playground, especially with boys and she just giggled!