Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Caleb's teacher celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday yesterday by inviting 5 guest readers to come and share their favorite story. It was hard to narrow it down but I finally settled on "The Three Wishes." When I finished reading Caleb raised his hand and asked, "Is there more time?" He wanted me to continue reading. The feeling was mutual. Moments like that really make me miss my teaching days. I loved reading to a captive audience of 30 students!
Pat On The Back
Friday was also one of my monthly Pat on the Back days. It is a program sponsored by our school's PTA that I run with two other ladies. I designed the shirt and Jon, with his vast computer skills, turned it into a working graphic. Each student received a shirt at the beginning of the year and each teacher chooses a few students to be honored each month. When they earn the award they bring their shirt in to be stamped with the principal's handprint. We actually paint his hand with paint and he prints it on each shirt. It takes three of us a couple of hours each month to get the handprints done. The idea is that every student will have the opportunity to be recognized at least once during the year.
The shirt.
Here are Caleb and Alyssa modeling their shirts! 
Alyssa earned her pat in October (the first month they were awarded) so it is orange, Caleb was awarded December green!
One of the tables where we let the shirts dry over the weekend. On Monday we'll go in, bag them up and deliver them to the teachers.
A Night Out
BYU's Young Ambassadors came through town last night. We hosted two of the performers and received free tickets. Babysitters were very hard to come by with many of our regulars having a birthday party to attend. We finally nailed down a sitter, one I barely knew and one the kids had never met. Trying someone new always makes me nervous, but I reasoned that she had many younger siblings and would probably be fine. To add to the anxiety, Natalie threw up just as we were heading out the door. She had been sick on Thursday but had seemed fine all day long. The babysitter didn't seem too fazed by it and after much hemming and hawing, we decided to go ahead and leave her and told the sitter to call if anything else happened. We proceeded to enjoy a great dinner with friends and then went on to see the Young Ambassadors' show. It was really excellent with Broadway shows being the theme. I quite enjoyed myself except that I steadfastly held my cellphone (in silent mode, of course) throughout the night, worrying that the babysitter may call at any moment. After the show, Jon stayed back to bring the perfomers home and I left to relieve the sitter. As it turns out, Natalie threw up two more times and the sitter also had to change a bad diaper. Apparently she didn't think it too big a deal and didn't want to bother calling us. She just cleaned up the messes and was more than calm when she told me that "my baby sister does that sometimes." I guess I'm glad I overpayed her.
Jon arrived later with the performers, two girls. They were very nice guests and were grateful for our hospitality. We stayed up late talking with them and even discovered that one of them grew up right next door to my aunt in Utah. Small world! Overall it was a really enjoyable night, we just felt badly for Nat and the babysitter.
Running
Running has become a family affair! Jon decided to try the couch to 5K thing. He's been working hard! The kids love to run and like to accompany him when possible. Here is a picture of them at about their mid-point, Caleb was leading the pack and Alyssa was lagging!
Caleb's always loved running and is quite good at it! This week in PE he ran the mile with a time of 8 minutes and 16 seconds. That's not his best time ever but still the fastest of his class which earned him a "Wildcat Wow," an award which gets him entered in a drawing to have lunch with the principal.
He's earned several of these awards for more academic things but he seemed especially proud of this one.
6 comments:
How fun to read about your activities and accomplishments! We love the pictures--Makes us a bit homesick, but we get busy and get over it.
You might want to ask that babysitter to move in with you!
What a fun week, except for Nat being sick. Way to go guys! (I need to come join you in the running.)
I'm glad you went anyway. And that babysitter sounds like a dream. I hope Natalie is feeling better.
Those shirts are so cool! Your kids' school is so lucky to have you on their team...if not as a teacher then leading the parents in helping them.
Woot for Jon for doing couch to 5K. He's going to kick my tail...I still haven't gotten past weeks 2! But, suddenly, I'm feeling more motivated:)
Congrats Caleb! I hope you get the lunch!
Poor Natalie...hope she is better!
Fun to hear about your week. WTG Jon on the running :) And Caleb too!
We have a great babysitter that cleans up vomit, too:) Jonas has done that twice on her. THe shirts are a great idea. Our school celebrated Dr. Suess with a read-in. Everyone sat in the halls and read their favorite Dr. Suess books and there was a visit from the Cat in the Hat.
Go Caleb! and Jon...that's awesome.
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