monday monday.

today i saw:

>  a first grader who had given himself a haircut.  in class.  during reading groups.  he was kind enough to clean up and throw all of his hair into the trash can... where his teacher discovered it.  he may not have a future in this profession - i noticed several bald spots.

>  an enormous rump.

>  a small child (grade level unknown) white knuckling the concrete edge of the drinking fountain and screeching at the top of her lungs... to no one in particular and for no particular reason.  

>  the jagged bottom of a glass bottle... just before one of my students stepped onto it while he was running the track.  it was a close one folks.  he missed.

>  zombie wannabes.  

ahhhh... mondays.

over it.

okay friends.  here's the scoop.  i have so many super cute pictures to post (snow day, bath time, nekkid tummy time, etc.) but - i am TOO LAZY!  i apologize.  there really is no excuse for it.  in all reality, my camera is about 3 feet away from me and the cord to attach to the computer is right next to it in my purse but i am sooooo tired that i can't even think of getting up.  

in fact, i should give you  a huge update on happenings with the mitches but again TOO LAZY.  my eyelids are resting upon toothpicks as i write this.  quickly.  scoob has been sleeping all night, in his crib, in his room.  i know.  a miracle that a) we never crushed our baby when he slept in our bed with us (imagine!  what horrible parents) and b) that we have such an awesome baby.  makes me scared for what #2 will be like (or as matt refers to our yet to be conceived baby - "charlie brown").  also, house hunting.  that's all i will say about that for fear that god will strike me down for being over confident.

finally.  i believe that i am the victim of a never-ending head cold (or should i say "neber ending").  i disgust myself daily with what is going on inside my nose/ears/throat/mouth and pray for it to end soon.  here's where you say 

"but sam, why haven't you gone to the doctor?"

and i say

"because i am TOO LAZY."

i am convinced that one morning i will wake up and it will all be better.  this prayer began (no joke) 3 weeks ago. 3 WEEKS!  ick.

finally (again).  matt has to teach "health and hygiene" to all the fifth grade boys at rose.  hee hee.  that's all.  =)

shrek throat

so i'm the only one awake in our house right now and decided to do a little catching up.  by the way, it is also furiously hailing right now outside and i am beyond excited.  it is incredibly loud too!  maybe it will scare away all the people coming to see our house.  hold on.

okay, i had to go and take pictures of this event.  it even woke matt up, so i am now one of two people awake in this napping house.

so our landlords have decided to sell the condo we are living in.  that's cool - except we have to be available  to show it for them (unless we want a lockbox on the front door - we don't).  so as of now we've had three different showings today.  we have one scheduled for tomorrow and another for mon. afternoon.  this is all fine - ooooohhhh!  thunder!   =)  okay, so this is all fine for our landlords because lots of people are interested in their condo for sale (dirt cheap).  but... we live in it.  until the end of march.  and then we will need somewhere new.  yikes!  best get on that, huh sam?  

meanwhile, we had a battle with rice cereal but i think we came out okay.  we ditched that demon slop and have since become very fond of oatmeal...  i say "we" but only the scoob and i really like oatmeal.  and really it's the scoob who i'm speaking of.... the "royal we".  also, we are fixin' to try some sweet potatoes for the first time tonight.  

in the classroom, we've had a rough couple weeks in room 25.  not only have we had several emotional outbursts - but the kids are really acting up too.  =)  no really - i sent someone to anger management the other day after he screamed at the principal for an hour.  also, we have had a "shrek throat" outbreak in our class.  i've heard it's really nasty... you don't want it.  

okay.  i'm also adding some pictures for the benefit of your imaginations.... they may not be as vivid as mine.

my big boy.

i love him.  these are picks from his walk with kimma today.  look at how big he is!

is it friday yet?

apparently my students don't subscribe to the idea that four day weeks are cool, therefore, students should be cool as well.  trust me - any chances my kids had to be cool today were spit upon by aforementoned demon children, lit on fire, and then waved in my face.  in short, rough day in grade one.  can tomorrow please be friday?

who's the furry guy?

just a quick post to try and fill in like a months worth of happenings....   back to school, boo.  started rice cereal, a second time, and it seems to be a hit.  big news is that jack just figured out that we have a dog.  i know that pepe is quite small - and with our present living conditions my son very well could have thought that pepe was just a relative of our wall dwellers - but no, he is a dog.  jack can't get enough of him.  he sits and watches him run around the house and is completely enthralled with this hairy little creature.  we visited auntie plus' house today and she also has a dog that jack was totally into.  i think dogs stump him.  that and his own hands.  hands...  what a trip.  who knew?

solids?

so we decided to give solid foods (can rice cereal really be categorized as a serious solid?) a whirl this past weekend.  not sure if the scoob is really into it - he seemed to like it the first night but since then he seems more enthralled with his chair than the food.  anyway, here are a few pics of the process we like to call "feeding" and my attempt at video.  =)