Marshmallow teeth, dang Sketchers, and the missing trash can lid...

The kiddos are learning about dental hygiene and this is such a cute idea! EXCEPT that they're marshmallows (not the healthiest food for your teeth or your body...)! I still like them :)

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God, it's just like Sketchers to come up with something as ridiculous as these shoes!
That pink dot at the bottom of the shoe is a spinning disk so that girls can spin near the ball of  their foot. RIDICULOUS, right??? They remind me of those Heelys, the shoes with the wheels at the heel.

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Can you spot the trash can lid?? I was walking around the blacktop in the rain trying to find it! The lid has been stolen before, believe it or not! This time, it blew over the fence and into the other school's yard LOL (To the left of the staircase, at the bottom. I know that the photo is kinda small :/ but it's there!)

I know someone who can jump 724 times in a row!!!! Plus job news and drinking escapades LOL

I should have her face covered, but OH WELL. I think her hair covers her face enough LOL

The kids were having a BALL when they were jumping and I started counting for them. Three girls wanted me to try and count as fast as I could. The first girl stopped at 328 and I was thinking "This is UNREAL!!!" but the other two just kept going and going and going... The next girl dropped off at about 525. Finally, this one stopped at 724 and she took a brief pause and started up again! I had to tell her, "No! That doesn't count because you stopped!" What I really wanted to do was stop counting! 

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This was during nap time, and it's a hit and miss with this one. She's a little firecracker :)

Well, she fell asleep and we were joking at work, saying, "She had one too many drinks." HA HA HA

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Lastly, I have a boy who goes around wearing girls' Jordans, complete with shimmery fabric and pink details. I was helping him to tie his shoelaces and he points to Michael's logo on the shoe and says, "See, that's me! I'm running fast like a tiger!" (This is the same kid in the "Polar Express" story below... Read it to find out what I'm referring to :P) And he started to snarl and growl.

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EXCITING JOB NEWS:

I just accepted a job as a Preschool Teacher with Bright Horizons, one of Fortune magazine's "Top 100 Companies to Work For" (13 years and counting)! I start this job on April 2nd :) I feel pretty good about it, the staff is really nice, and there are lots of opportunities for advancement. 

I've worked so hard, going to school and gaining all of this experience, and now I can say that I've made it. All of that work is paying off :D Wish me luck, everyone. I hope this will be a fulfilling time for me.

Cheerios, China, and Stickers

Hi, folks. What I really wanted to do was video blog about this... It's really difficult for me to find a spare moment to videotape myself, but I'll get that done today!

In the meantime, you can read about them first:

1) We were gluing Cheerios and having the children count them as they glued, then one of the girls looked at a Cheerio, then looked at me and said "O!" like "Okay!" I looked at her with a quizzical look and said, "Yeah, I guess so..." then she said, "And like... 'Oh!'" Yes, lol, like "Oh."

2) One of my boys wanted to help me wipe down the tables after snack. He said, "You know how they say 'clean' in China? 'Sparkle' like 'sparkle and shine. Shine and sparkle.'"

3) This girl earned a sticker for being responsible and lying down in her cot right away for nap time. When it was time for bed, she looked at her hand and asked "Where is my sticker??" I wasn't the one who gave it to her, so I didn't know where she had it before, so I said, "I really don't know where you put it. Why don't you go to sleep and we'll look for it when you wake up." She turned over and this is what we discovered: