I took Genevieve to the new water park that just opened in May with a group of my teacher friends a week ago.
She loved floating down the lazy river with Tara and her daughter Lydia.
We tried to get a picture of the whole group, but Spencer and Alex weren't too interested and my child was hollering because this was interrupting her snack of animal crackers.
This one's a little better.
Everyone was cracking up over the amount of sun protection that I provide for my child. I wear SPF 50 too, so it's not just her!
Here she is refusing to share with anyone, even though those are Lydia's animal crackers.
With a bit of coaxing, some sharing occurred.
We had such fun that we took Trinity on Saturday. He complained the whole time that the water was cold. If there are two things my man can't tolerate, it's being hungry or cold.
G got tired of the water and so did her father, so they spent a lot of time on the swings.
I lazy rivered it.
She was a bit tuckered after that fun.
We took YaYa with us on Tuesday and had a ball.
Mother and I were able to sneak away to do some water sliding. I shot out of one so fast and plunged into the water that I thought the teenaged lifeguard was going to have to rescue me.
I came up coughing and blowing water out of my snoz.
It was pure glamour.
Whitney and I took Emily for a little back to school shopping. They had their first Tory Burch experience. They served Whitney champagne to get her to part with some moolah. They are smart that way.
Emily decided on some darling pointed toe flats.
I refrained from purchasing any.
I am about finished with my 1st grade room.
This bulletin board has since been covered with my own goodies like family photos, past class pictures, etc.
I love Peppermint Patty.
We share a similar round face shape.
I'll be sure to bring this up during our geometry unit in math.
My desks are in a double u shape. Not W, but double u.
Get it?
That middle table is where I will set up a writing center and hold writing conferences.
I'm getting $5 stools from Ikea this weekend, which slide right under the tables and save ever so much room.
No name tags on the desks.
We don't do that until they physically walk in the room.
Our school is fairly transient.
My Smartboard, classroom library, calendar, and listening rug. I have had that purple velvet chair since my 1st year of teaching in 2001. It sits very low so that I am down close to my little munchkins. They all tend to think I'm so huge anyway, so this puts me at their level for read alouds and such.
I'm wondering who my shoe/foot rubber will be this year. I always had a kid or two who would just touch my shoes when I read.
Maybe if all of my footwear wasn't metallic gold, then they wouldn't be drawn to it like crows.
Wish me luck on a good year!
It's been a while, but I think I'll fall back in the groove quickly:)
