Tomorrow is wonderful

Today is hump day!! yeah! My hump day only has one day on either side of it, so I guess it loses it's coolness. I am, as of Tues., the official K4 teacher for the fall semester. Can everyone scream with me?? More of a aaahhh scream than a yahh scream!! Don't get me wrong in the least! I am beyond excited about it. Just nervous. I think that it is ok and good to be nervous about something so important though. I think it means I care. Like I told Becky and Joyce, I am fully confident that I can teach four year olds the alphabet and how to write it, and maybe even to read, but I'm nervous about the paperwork issue. I'm a bit more confident thinking that Dana left all of her lesson plans for me to copy. I just want to make sure that I am able to give my class everything that she and I were able to give the class last year. It was fun. It was like being a mom to all of those kids, teaching them how to open their lunches by themselves, and making sure they don't play in the water in the bathroom, as well as seeing how much they improved by the years end in writing their names and numbers. But then I got to send them home to their parents. I guess that would make me more like a grandparent than anything. Either way being involved in other children's lives helped me to grow as a person in a very non-selfish way. It has even helped me to love my own family better.

By the way, here are the pics that I was not able to upload on my last blog entry. And yes, that is a longhorns jersey!!! And yes, my dad was trying to give my mom and I a heart attack.

Peter comes home tomorrow. I asked Michael the other day if he missed daddy, and he said "yes, when is coming home from work?" At that moment it sunk in that I don't think that I had fully explained to him that daddy was on a trip. I know I had told him that daddy went on a trip, but I think I just said it in passing, not a sit down look him in the eye kind of thing. So when he said what he said the way he said it, it made me think that he thought that daddy just went to work and hadn't come home yet. Make sense?? Poor buddy. He talked to Peter tonight before bed and told him all the things that he wants to do with him when he gets back. It made me laugh and cry at the same time. So sweet. When he was done rambling about things we both didn't quite understand, the looked up at me and said, "I am done talking to him now, I want to read books." and that was how the conversation ended.

Last night I was putting him to bed and I had to go get a screaming Aiden. I think he was kind of drifting off because when I walked back in there I acidentally kicked some toys. He poked his head up and matter of factly said to me "mommy I will clean all those toys up tomorrow because this room is so so so so messy, and I don't want you to hurt your feet on the toys, so I will clean them up tomorrow." Then he laid his head back down. All I could say to that was "good idea sweetheart."
I heard him talking in the car to Aiden today, and in a previous blog I mentioned that Aiden just looks over and stares at Michael in the car. Well, I started tuning in on what Michael was saying to his brother, and I thought it was so funny. He was scolding him. He said something to tune of, " when we go to sleep tonight you need to be still and quiet in your bed so that mommy can snuggle me and read me books. So you need to not cry and you need to stay in your bed." How cute is that? I looked at Aiden's face while Michael was talking to him and he just adores whatever comes out of that crazy almost four-year-old's mouth. I put him to bed about 9:30 or so tonight. I was able to read him an extremely long book that I won't be reading again at bedtime because it puts me to sleep before I can get through all of it. I don't like Lyle Lyle, crocadile.
Pray that my pump starts working, I know that is a funny request, but I can't pump because it doesn't work, and I had just gotten my supply up to where I needed it to be. I might just have to go and buy another one tomorrow. Bummer.

Tomorrow is the last day of summer MDO! Next week I have in-service, and then the next I have nothing!! Woohhooo. I am going to get my feet done! Ok Peter?
Goodnight everyone.