Call In Backup!

Tomorrow our local church is having another pancake breakfast and James has had the biggest grin on his face every time we passed the marquee out on their lawn. LOL! He is a very thin kid, but he can pack away some food. The older ladies at the church love to see him coming as it "does [their] heart good to see that boy eat!"

And guess where all that food goes? To.His.Feet!!!

We went out shoe shopping today for summer sandals. James' shoe size has jumped from a 1.5 to a 4!!!! How is that possible?!?!? I told him we might have to cut off a few toes to keep him in kid sized shoes. ~Grin~

10 Week Countdown

We have about 10 weeks left of school. The time has gone by pretty fast and it has been a very good year. I have really enjoyed teaching my pre-kindergartner and he has surprised me so much with what he was able to learn and do this year. Yesterday he had a reading page with a picture for coloring and we were cracking up at the way he added himself and siblings to the picture. See how the kids are hanging out the window? I asked why they weren't in their car seats and he just laughed and slapped his knee. Too funny. He is like an old man sometimes.

I have also kinda taken this attitude of exposing him to lots of things, even skills above his level just to see what he will do and I am always surprised at his abilities. Many times I will give him a page and not tell him what to do to see what he will come up with.

We Interrupt 4th Hour....

What excitement today! We had a tornado drill and had to go to the basement for about 22 minutes. The city we live in does not typically have tornado's as we live in kind of in a bowl, but the surrounding townships have had tornado's in the past.

The kids were just looking out the window discussing how dark the sky had gotten on this rainy day when the EAS alarms started ringing. It was a good drill as I gave instructions and everyone followed them carefully and completely. We sat down stairs and talked about weather and how to respond in emergencies. (We also sorted some laundry and started a load of towels. LOL! ) A few years ago my oldest son had to prepare an emergency kit for school that we kept in the basement. It needs to be updated a bit as we have grown by 2 kids, so I guess 6th grade will be doing that this week.

We now return to our regularly scheduled class.

The Lamb Returns

So if you read here, you know about the lamb. Well this Sunday, the lesson continued with the fact that after the sacrifice, the Lamb was returned to us in the form of our Savior. When the pastor's wife announced that the lambs would be returned, 6th grade smiled so big.

So we have our lamb back and while the puppy thinks that the little lamb should be his own personal chew toy, all are happy.

Happy Easter

Birthday Surprise

My daughter turned 12 and we had a surprise birthday party for her. It was so fun to do and she says that she never suspected a thing.

Let's just say there is not a tube of lib gloss left anywhere in the city. Ha! And her toe nails have about 12 layers of sparkly clear nail polish.

After the party, telling her Auntie about her goodies.

**Update**

She got her guitar!

Attached Lamb & Eggs

On Sunday our pastor and wife did a tag team lesson describing how the lamb, whose blood would be used over the door during passover, was to be prepared. As part of the object lesson they brought in a basket of stuffed animal lambs, enough for each family to take 1 home. Well 6th grade is a sucker for anything soft, furry and cute and ooohhs and aaahhha were issued as the basket was presented. But! the catch was that each family could only have the lambs for 4 days before having to return them for sacrifice. At first Jordan decided that she was not going to get attached to the lamb and just left it sitting out on the table for 2 days, but yesterday morning when I went in to wake her, loudly singing the "Good Morning To You" song (did I mention loudly ~Smile~) I pulled back the covers and there was the little lamb in the bed with her. I knew she could not hold out. So tonight we take the little lamb back, but here he is in the mean while.

Yesterday, we colored eggs for the first time. They enjoyed it. The girl says she does not want to eat hers for sentimental reasons. Ha! I ate mine this morning. Yum