Change

I have been slacking on this whole blogging thing, but work has been keeping me busy! Everyday after work, all I want to do is sleep. I was talking to one our wonderful fifth grade teachers. One year she taught Kindergarten. She said that every night she would go home and take a bubble bath. It is definitely exhausting! I have been told that upper elementary is easier. I feel like all grades have their pros and cons. I plan on sticking with Kinder for as long as possible.

Once a month, our counselor takes one class at a time to do a thirty minute lesson with them. After she took my class she said "You have a great class! You must've been praying for your class all summer." I told her that absolutely I was! After the beginning of last year being such a wreck, I definitely didn't want a repeat. This year has been SO much better than last year. I have an amazingly helpful set of parents! The parents are responsible for bringing class snack for two days every two months or so. My counter looks like this...

These parents have gone above and beyond what they were asked to do. I am excited to see how the rest of this year goes. It's been an amazing beginning! 

The other day I woke up to find that Muñeca had got her bed out of her cage. She's been working on that for a while. She seemed pretty proud of herself.

Tonight Manny and I were watching this strange movie called "Redemption." I was quite confused most of the movie. In one scene the main character was beating up this guy and stuff marshmallows in his mouth. Well apparently they were marshmallows... It was a bunch of little bags of crack. Never would've known. I relate the things I see, to the things I know. I know marshmallows, not crack. Haha

When we watch movies, I bring Muñeca's frog blanket out, otherwise she will try and get on the couch. She was watching the movie with us and I realized how long she is getting :-( 

I told her she can't get bigger. She can get rid of her baby teeth though, for sure!

Now for the exciting stuff!!! Yesterday I got a sample...

My sister got the same sample too. I think that's the first time we have both gotten the same sample. Usually we get totally different things somehow.

Today I got some more freebies from Highlight's magazines. I got two containers that have chalkboards on the front...

I also got some tabs and sticky notes.

It's been a pretty exciting day!! I am ready for bed now. Haha I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I know I will :-)

Weekend

On Friday, Manny and I went to Best Buy. We found the most hilarious CD player... Or boombox. I am not sure what they are called these days since they do more than play CDs. For some reason this boombox had a strap. I guess sometimes you just want to walk around listening to music.

On Saturday, we went to Jimmy Changas for lunch. It was pretty good! Their tortillas were the bomb. I definitely need to get their recipe. Of course the best part was the ice cream. They had this amazing chocolate soft serve ice cream. It wasn't the typical soft serve... It tasted like legit chocolate. I made Manny his cone. He still hasn't mastered the art of ice cream cone making. Some day!

Manny said that I should've tried to make the chocolate spiral around. Next time I will. He still needs to experience Jonathan making him an ice cream cone. Hahaha!!I can't wait for that.

Today at school, one of the kids came up to me during recess. He said "Hey remember when I told you about Oscar?" I think Oscar is his lawnmower because a week ago he pointed at the lawnmowers and said "Hey there's two Oscars!" Haha well I told him I remembered Oscar. He said "Oscar has a big saw and if you go near it, it will hurt you and you will go to Heaven." Then he ran off to play. I was telling Manny this story and Manny was trying to figure out how he could've made up that story. I told him that kids usually don't make things up, they repeat what they've heard. Little kids are also super honest. If you want to know if something makes you look fat, ask a two year old. Haha!! A bunch of honest Abe's. For example, one of my kids came up to me saying that someone had pinched her. I called over the supposed culprit. As soon as the kid walks over he says "I didn't pinch her!" I said "I didn't say anything about you pinching her. You just confessed though." Oh goodness. Children!

I got in the mail my items from Highlights magazine. They have this program that if you send home fliers advertising Highlights, then you get items for your classroom. At the beginning of the school year, they gave us two fliers to send home--regular highlights and puzzle highlights. I got my items for the puzzle highlights. I got a desk organizer that Manny is going to use in his man cave AKA our closet.

I also got this cute little counting game! You have to collect the most dog bones. Not sure how I will use this in my classroom. Maybe it will be a reward.

I hope everyone has a blessed evening :-)

Well now to deal with Muñeca... She has thousands of toys, yet still chews on the walls. Literally! And my flip flops. Oh baby teeth, please go away!!!

She drags her leash over, we don't let her use it as a toy. Haha

Have a marvelous rest of your Monday!

Toys!

On Saturday when we went to Kroger, Manny needed a boot shine kit. I told him that Dollar Tree sells them. I know that store like the back of my hand, so I know what they sell. Haha 

On Monday night we went to Dollar Tree. Oh yeah :-) Manny got his boot shining kit and two toys for Muñeca. Manny got her a rope and a stuffed soccer ball. She chased the soccer ball all over the house! She plays with the rope too, but she mainly just carries it around. 

On Sunday we didn't get to finish doing laundry because we got home so late and had church. Today I discovered that Muñeca has been going through the laundry basket. She is trying to get to her blue rug she likes to sleep on. What a stinker!!

Yesterday I got a sample of dog food and dog treats. 

I held the dog treats up to Muñeca to let her choose which flavor she wanted. She sniffed both and then jumped up to get one of them. She chose what she wanted :-)

One of my kids today told me at recess that they were going to play tag. He told me "Tag is when you run, run, run, and then tag someone." I said "Yeah I know." He said "Oh you've played it with your mom?" Hahaha I said yes. 

At the end of the school day, one of my kids asked why he got on yellow. I told him he was talking too much and didn't finish his work. He said "Is it ok if I stay here for a second and write that down?" I told him he could. All the other kids had left, but he was busy writing. His parents must ask him why he gets on a "bad" color and he must not remember. I'm not surprised! Most five year olds can barely remember what they ate for breakfast. Haha! It cracks me up. Things like these are the reason I love my job.

I hope everyone has a wonderful evening. I'm hoping to get to bed early. It's been a long week. Only 12 more before Christmas break!! Haha

Travel

This past weekend we went to Killeen for my second sister's baby shower. It was fun getting to see her and her baby bump :-) At the baby shower, I won one of the games. My mom said I cheated. You had to put an ice cube with a plastic baby in your drink. Whenever the baby was free from the ice, you had to yell "My water broke!" Well my baby just had a tiny piece on it's legs so I bit it off. Nicole yelled "Alicia's water broke!" I won a pink sparkly cup and a bar of chocolate. My mom said I cheated because I bit the ice off. She was just mad because she lost and her baby's arm just had a little ice on it. She could've bit the ice off her baby!! Haha 

We got home yesterday around 3:45 and had to head straight to church for MPact girls and Royal Rangers. When we finally got home Muñeca was helping us unpack. I think she was wanting to go back to visit Cora, my sister's dog. 

Her eyes look evil, but she's not. It's my dumb camera flash. Haha I cleaned her ear yesterday because it was bugging me how nasty they looked inside. One ear was dirtier than the other. Don't worry, I didn't take a picture. I told Manny one of them was dirtier and he said that was weird. I asked him if his ears always have the same amount of earwax. He said "True." Haha

Today Manny practiced putting on all of his fireman gear. He has to get it all on plus be breathing oxygen in less than 2 1/2 minutes. I was timing him and Muñeca was on the couch next to me. When Manny put his mask on, Muñeca was right next to me. Poor baby is still scared of the monster! Haha

I realized tonight how huge the pockets are on Manny's fireman pants. I think you could fit like four bricks in them. 

Well I hope everyone has a wonderful night. Right now I'm watching Muñeca run around the house with her soccer ball in her mouth. Hahaha!!! But bedtime will be soon :-)

Celebrate!

Yesterday Manny passed his NREMT!! Yay! To celebrate we went and got ice cream from Marble Slab. After I saw the receipt, he asked if I had a heart attack. Haha 

Yesterday Manny also got all of his fire equipment. He tried it all on after we got home from church. 

He decided that once he had it all on, he would try to pick up Muñeca. She was so scared. Poor baby! She was squealing at him. 

Shortly after this picture was taken, she was laying on her back barking and squealing. I went to pick up Muñeca to rescue her. Her back was all wet!!! She had peed she was so scared and then rolled in her pee. I was not very happy that I had to give the dog a bath at 9:15pm. I'm usually in bed by 9. I had to bathe the dog and I still had to pack lunches. After I bathed the dog, Manny sent me to bed and he packed our lunches. 

I also got a sample yesterday!! 

It's some type of caffeine pill. I told Manny he will probably need it when he starts working 24 hour shifts. He said I need it for work. If I don't get my sleep, I'm grumpy. Haha

Today's free sample was super exciting!!!

We bought a Keurig coffee maker about a month ago. These little things cost about 80-90 cents each. I told Manny he would like the sample I got today. He was pretty excited :-) I'm not a big iced tea drinker, so he knows he will get to drink them all. 

Oh man! I'm so ready for the weekend. This has been a long week with the kids. I need some sleep. This weekend we are going to a baby shower for my sister. Yay!! Should be fun! I'll attempt to get some rest. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon!! It's almost the weekend :-)

8 days...

8 days without Internet... Manny went to the AT&T store today. The other day I jokingly said that he should ask for a discount because we haven't had Internet for over a week. So today when he went, he asked for a discount. They gave us 25% off. Sweet!!! I still dislike AT&T, but at least they tried to make things somewhat right. Now we just need them to come and fix our Internet. 

On Sunday Manny wanted to take a 30 minute nap. He said he woke me up after 30 minutes, but I didn't wake up. I ended up sleeping an hour and a half. Oops! Two days off of work is not enough time to recover from five days of work. Every weekend needs to be a three day weekend. 

I got a new student yesterday. I'm waiting for him to start talking. I guess that's good that he is quiet, but I sometimes need him to talk. Haha

I got a free sample in the mail. Yay! It is two pastels:

 

Yesterday I had a freebie website open on my phone. I left my phone on the bed. Manny saw the site and he laughed at me for always getting free stuff. I reminded him of the coffee samples I got for him. He seems to forget that he uses my samples too. Haha 

Tomorrow at work some teachers from another school are coming to observe. We shall see how that goes... Also, there will be a principal meeting at our school, so the principals will probably be wandering into our rooms. Fun fun!

I hope everyone has a wonderful evening!

No Internet :-(

I have been feeling blog deprived. Manny and I have had Internet for the past five days. It's been quite depressing. So here I am posting from my phone. Boo!

Last Saturday Manny worked a 24 hour shift. I decided to make hot chocolate truffles and Reese's truffles. Manny liked the Reese's truffles and he didn't want to share. 

The back two rows are Reese's truffles. I covered some of the hot chocolate truffles with graham cracker crumbs and some with the little baby marshmallows. The little baby marshmallows are my favorite part of prepackaged hot chocolate packets. 

Today we decided to get Muñeca a bone to chew on. She enjoys biting my feet which is annoying when I'm trying to get ready in the morning. 

She chewed off the end of the bone already. Hopefully this lasts her a while, otherwise we will have to get her one of those big horse bones. 

I went to the store and to my relief, they were selling Christmas stuff. Yay!!! Christmas vacation is almost here :-)

The other day I read my kids the book "My Mouth is a Volcano." One of my kids started to blurt out during a story and he said "Oh yeah, volcano mouth." Haha

I also read my kids the book "A Bad Case of the Tattle Tongue." In the book, the boy's tongue turns purple with yellow spots because he tattles all the time. We had a talk about tattling vs. telling. One of my kids yesterday was saying something to me and I asked "Are you tattling or telling?" She said tattling. I said "No that's tattling because no one got hurt." She said "Oh I hope I don't get tattle tongue." Hahaha oh man! My kids crack me up. I get a new student Monday, so I will have 19 kids. 

This year is off to a good start to far. I'm excited for where this is going. Yay!

I hope everyone had a wonderful rest of the weekend :-)