Another Blast of Winter

Here we go again another blast of that white stuff. Which made for a slow and messy commute this morning. I guess Michigan is trying to get as much snow as possible before spring gets here.
Good news is that by the time we came home from work is was almost gone, we were suppossed to have rain, but I don't think that came.

Field Trip Day

For the last couple days I've had to teach this 2nd grade class. The teacher had a death in the family, and didn't leave any lesson plans. Which meant I had to do the best I could with last weeks lesson plans. This is my group of kids posing outside of the Detroit Historical Museum.
There was 3 classes that went, I got off my bus and went onto the other bus and got this picture of Alex trying to duck out of the picture.

One of our stops was at a Beaver, we had a good lesson on the Michigan Beaver. He even had a beaver skin that the kids got to touch. He also had the skull of the beaver with it's teeth and they got to feel how sharp the teeth were.

I didn't get to be with Alex during the tour, but I was able to see him a couple times during the day, which I took advantage and got his pictue.

What a Surprise

After a few days of warm weather with temps in the upper 60's and 70's, we wake up this morning with a blanket of this white stuff and the temps are at freezing 32 degrees, what a big change.
We've had a great couple of days with warm temperatures, at work we were able to take the kids out on the playground. Alex has spent alot of time outside playing. Neighbors were getting out and cleaning up around their houses. Everyone is getting anxious for some good weather to stick around.

Babies

These are Courtneys twins enjoying a wagon ride. But it looks like Cooper is upset that the ride is over,or that he's getting his picture taken.

This little guy is Jordans son Maddox. All these babies are just growing up to fast.

Nice day to play outside

We finally have some nice weather, the temps were in the 50's today. Good enough to get outside and play. Which is what he did all day today. Almost all of the snow is gone, but you can still see some patches of that white stuff. Alex has been out playing basketball and football and just running around the yard. I know he enjoyed himself today.

Hey Joeyleigh

Joey this picture is for you, you wanted to see more pictures of that white stuff. I woke up wednesday morning and there was a couple inches of that white fluffly stuff all over. The only good thing about snow this time of the year is that it doesn't last long.

Here is Danny with his son Nathanial, he's 4 months old now and weighing 7lb 13oz. Look at the beautiful smile I'm so glad the wee little one is doing good.

The Storyteller

Today we had a storyteller come to the school and do a story with the children, he got the children and teachers involved, It was so much fun. He first started out with ma & pa then he kept adding adults to the line, each one of us was an animal. I ended up being a chicken. The teacher in front of me was a pig. We had to hold onto each others waist and make like we're trying to pull up a yam.


He gave me the mic and I had to say WHEW this is hard work! As you can see the teacher above really got into doing the motion.

I had my camera and was taking pictures, I was in the very back of the gym praying I wouldn't be choose, It didn't work.

The Old Man's Day

Today is Dad's 66th birthday and we got together and had pizza and cake & ice cream. Dad got a small digital camera for his birthday, mom gave it to him before his birthday and we showed him how to use it. Here's dad opening his cards and alex close by.

Just a pic of mom & lisa setting around. I went and picked up Chelsea from the dorm so she can join us for the little get together. Here she is with her pizza acting silly for the camera.

Alex got my camera and wanted to take some pictures, so he got this one of me & mom just sitting around. He also took this one of Chelsea & Vanessa sitting on my treadmill, Vanessa has the oddest expression on her face, sorta looks like a confused puppy.

Alex also took this one of Becky, she also wasn't feeling well today. He tried to get one of Michael but he wouldn't cooperate.

We went to Baskin Robbins and got a birthday & anniversary ice cream cake.

Here's dad using his birthday present and taking pictures of his cake.

Here's mom and dad blowing out their anniversary candles.

I always seem to get mom doing silly faces, she'll probably hurt me for posting them.

Chelsea Just being silly

After all the pizza and ice cream cake, I got this picture of Dad & Lisa relaxing. Lisa claims she was only resting her eyes and wasn't sleeping.

Vacation Week

Well this is the 4th day of vacation and we've done nothing. Alex has been sick since monday, I took him to the doctor and it's nothing serious but a virus and she said there's nothing to give for a virus. In this picture he has a headache, and the chills, It's been like this since day 1 of our vacation. Well our house guest finally went home, I don't think she very happy with me. I think she was getting to comfortable in the house. This week the weather has been in the 30's warm enough for her to go home, and so she did but not of her choice.

Sunday Lunch

I took my son out to lunch Sunday after church. He had a free coupon for pizza hut, because he has been reading 10 books or more a month for the book it club, after each month if they read they get a coupon.

Here he is trying to hide from me, after a few suprise shots he decides to pose.

Valentine's Day

Since it's Black History month the school had the black history program today, the children did mostly sing and recite a few poems. All the second graders sang Follow the Drinking Gourd. The best class was one 3rd grade class that sang a couple old black gospel songs, those kids did an excellent job.

Since we had a snow day on Wednesday (valentine's day) his teacher did the party today, thursday she had 2 preps and not enough time to party. So here he is passing out his valentines cards. I wasn't able to attend but only for a few minutes. Because it is the last day before we have a week off, teachers were leaving early going out of town. The subs were taken, and there were only 2 aides working today the other 3 were off. They had me double booked, I had to ask them to cancel the last science class so I could go to the other class I was already promised too.

I did figure out a way to make my way to his party, I took the kids on a water break to the basement. They stood there for awhile, so when the teacher put on some music (happy feet) I told them they could dance. The boy in the front has some pretty good moves, so I had to snap his picture.
I can't believe Alex got up and started dancing and he was the only one until this girl came and danced with him.

I always seem to get pictures of his teacher giving me looks. I'm not sure what they were studing at the time but all the kids made chef hats. I had Alex try it on for a picture.

Snow Day

Which means a day off school/work.

Well we have at least 6 inches or more of snow plus very cold temp, wind chill makes it at least -10. Every thing is a mess here, freeways aren't cleaned off, salt isn't working because temps are to cold. Dad is out shoveling snow, was going to use snow blower but no gas. I offered to shovel but he insisted he'd do it (didn't have to insist to much).

The Wee Little One

Here is Nathanial, everyone is so happy that he was finally able to come home from the hospital. He's weighing in at 5lb 10oz and the family is all doing good. Looks like daddy is very proud, what I understand is that Nathanial has some big beautiful brown eyes.

Count Down

There's nothing much going on here, nothing exciting like getting a new house or even looking for one. Maybe something interesting will be going on after the weather warms up.

Well I'm counting down, there's 5 working days til we have winter break; then I'll have a week off. It should be a quiet week, it's only been about 10weeks since my husband decided to get mad at me and not talk. At least Alex will be here he talks enough for everyone.

Back to Work

Well It was back to work yesterday, It's still cold but only in the single digits not the minus digits. We didn't have many kids at school yesterday, each class was running around 1/2 or just over. Alex didn't go he hasn't been feeling well. I'm ready to get him out of bed and see if he's feeling ok today.
The afternoon teacher I work with on wednesdays had the window open. I grabbed my work and told her I was doing it in the hallway it was to cold for me in the room. She came and got me after she closed the window, because she needed me to speak to the kids in and explain the words.
The teacher may be at that age when a woman changes, so I'm not going to get to upset, I will be there one day. (not really looking forward to it).

Another Cold Day

Well another cold day; only it's a little bit warmer today. Instead of -3 we're at 0 degrees, with a wind chill of -15.

I just can't believe Detroit public schools are closed again today, it's not like them, they usually don't care about the children.

So I have another day off, Yippee!

Bitterly Cold

Well the past couple mornings it has been below zero. Yesterday someone didn't turn the water on to a stream and our pipes froze. It took him most of the day to unfreeze them.

Believe it or not Detroit schools are closed today because of the temps. Most of these children little children walk to school, and there's an advisory out; if you don't have to go out then don't, It's -3 and feels like -20. This means I have a day off work hopefully it's paid.