My Friend Lu

I just watched the greatest video!! It was an interview of my friend Luann Pavlu who is this months recipient of the 9 News Teachers Who Care award. I have worked with her here in Keenesburg since I started my career and I definitely agree that she is deserving of this award. She is intelligent, creative, caring and so much fun! She is an inspiration to me and I'm sure she would be to many of you, too. Watching this video actually made me miss school for the first time this year! Read the article and watch her interview. She is amazing.

Oh, and those are "my kids" in the video. I've worked with all of them. They are great, too! Enjoy:

http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=107363&catid=346

#18

#18 arrived this morning! Does anyone wonder who/what #18 might be?

That would be my 18th niece/nephew......well this one wasn't a combo, it was just a nephew, but he is the 18th grandchild for my parents. His name is Cash Wesley Perry and he was born this morning at 7:19 a.m. to my sister Carrie (yes, Carrie Perry!) and her husband Nathan. He was a mini one at 20 inches long and weighing only 7 lb. 8 oz. His 3 brothers: Cord, Coy and Colsen welcomed him home this morning. They called me on their way home while they were in the drive through at McDonalds to let me know he had been born and it was only about 10/10:30 their time! (Only 3 hours after you delivered, what a trooper you are, Carrie!)

18, can that be right? I think it is, but I'll do the run-down just to make sure:
Jeremy - 5
Jill - 6
Meaghen - 3
Gretchen - 0 (but 1 on the way)
Kelby - 0
Carrie - 4

Yup, that's right! Well, that's all for now. #19 is expected to arrive in June, so stay posted. Hopefully they send pictures soon. I wish we could be around to see him, but I don't know that we'll be able to make that happen real soon.

The Fun Never Ends

Grady just woke up and says in his sweet, sleepy voice, "Mommy, I'm wet." (The boy didn't have any sleep-time accidents for about 3-4 months, so this is a new occurrence at our house.) I went about business as usual, cleaning him up and taking care of the wet clothes when I asked him, "Why do you think this is happening lately?" He replied, "It's good to potty in your pants. It is!" Hmmm. I'm thinking the 2 year-old and I may just have to agree to disagree on this one.

Funnies

Zetta and Grady frequently (every day!) fight taking a nap and today was no different. Grady wanted to play with toys and Zetta wanted to make a poster and some cards for people. I did win. After a bit of a struggle, they both fell fast asleep and had a good nap. Zetta was the first to come down so cute with tired eyes and a sleepy voice and asked if she could please finish her poster. That sounded fine with me, so I sent her to the kitchen table to do her crafting. 5 minutes later she came up to the living room with a pan and a plastic baggie filled with water and other mysterious substances asking me if I could put a rubber band on the bag while she went out to get some dirt. Yes, dirt! I let her know that I didn't think she needed to be filling bags with mystery liquids and making messes in the house, to which she responded, "But you said that I could!!!" I reminded her that she had asked to do cards and a poster and she sheepishly said, "Oh, I guess I got the words kind of mixed up.......I meant potion."

She was so cute (and I think she was actually innocent in the mislabeling of her activity), that I let her go ahead with it. After all, my Mom probably would have let me do that type of thing! She's still working on the potion 30 minutes later. We'll see if it ends up a disaster or a success!

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Doing "j" homework with Zetta: "OK, Zetta. What words start with the 'j' sound?"
"J-Jaclynn" (A girl in her class)
"OK, what other words?"
"J-J-Jaclynn......Lynn......Lin-DA......Linda helping hand!!!!"

Pictures of Us

Girly Fun

I had an appointment with my manicurist the other day. She did a wonderful job didn't she?

Oh, and here she is!

More Narnia

The kids....and Bryan are Narnia fanatics. They read about Narnia every night, they watch "Narnia" (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe) every chance they get and they play Narnia all day long. (I am hoping we get some good Christmas toys so that Zetta and Grady learn to play something else!)

Zetta prefers to play Lucy or sometimes Susan and Grady likes to be Peter, but will play anyone.
A few days ago, as far as I could tell, Grady took the part of the White Witch and I, unknowingly, was supposed to be playing Aslan. I was putting laundry away in their bedroom and he came at me with his dagger drawn and in his best wicked, growly voice said, "I am going to cut you on the hard couch!" Thinking I had not understood him, I asked, "On the what?" To which he replied, "Get on the hard couch and I will cut you!" I know I hurt his feelings, but I could not stop laughing when I realized what he was trying to say. If you've read "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe," the White Witch kills Aslan on the stone table. Grady had set the scene perfectly, but had the vocabulary a little mixed up!

He is such a funny boy. Maybe I'm a language-development nerd, but I love seeing how a 2-year-old develops - the concepts he picks up, the words he mixes up and his blossoming imagination! I wish you all could see him!