Kid Quips

Today was one of those days at school that I hope the kids remember about 3rd grade for years to come. We were working on travel brochures for an island in Iceland and the kids just got SO into it. We started making posters to display our brochures on, and they got so creative...some groups were even doing 3-d stuff!

Anyway...a couple funny stories as well, which always make for a good day!

One student: "Oh good, I'm finally growing hair....teacher, look, I'm getting hair in my ears. They are just like coming out, and I don't want to have those big long gray hairs coming out you know? So, I just pull them out when I see them..."

Yes, that was seriously all said in one long string! He was waiting for me to refill the stapler...As soon as I handed it to him, he just said, "Thanks!" And the ear-hair talk was over. Whew.
Then, another girl came up later this afternoon, "Teacher, guess what? Some of my friends babysat my bunny when I was out of town, and guess what happened?! It got out, and snuck into another bunny's cage. It got married with another bunny, and now there are baby bunnies everywhere!" Got married....love it!


And last, "Teacher, you should get Mr. Cox to give our class points in the contest since he's your husband!' I said, "I don't think he'll give me points, but he gave me a diamond!" Student, "Is it real?" Sure hope so. Although he does like those quarter machines at KMart....hum...

Female friend = girl (space) friend....NOT girlfriend

In my class, we have a couch at our rug area. To decide who sits on it when we all head over there, I pick a student who is really on-task and ready to go. They then pick a friend, so on and so on until there are 5 people. There has to be as equal as we can get on boys and girls, 3 and 2 or 2 and 3. So...as you can imagine, picking someone of the opposite gender is big deal in 3rd grade....We have lots of talks on "being mature".

So...today. I picked a student, a boy, so sit on the couch. He then picked a friend, and so on until it was a boy's turn to pick. This happens to be a very witty boy (see "I'm thinkin' Arby's" post from the past). He said, "I pick Mrs. Cox...because she's my BFF!"

Then a chorus rang out of, "Yeah, Best Friends Forever..."

"Yeah...Best Funny Friend..."

Until, "Best Female Friend"...which prompted the boy to associate female with girl...and blurt out, "Yeah, Best Girlfriend!" UhOh! His face went SO RED (keep in mind this kid is NEVER embarrassed in the slightest...) as the thought occurred to him that he just referred to the teacher as his "Best Girlfriend". We laughed for a good long time....poor thing!

Cutest Kid...EVER

Our nephew is the cutest, ever. Hands down. And just the all around, best kid. But I could be a little biased....Anyway, he LOVES to play with my boots. He puts them on and tries to walk around...so cute. He has recently learned how to say my name, and it is so sweet....somewhere between "Kiki" and "Geeky" (Let's not read into the geeky part too much...I'm sure he doesn't mean it...)

Aw....

Cute.

Beauty Tip

"Teacher, did you know that if you shave your legs when you're too young you'll grow man hair on them?"

Who needs Glamour magazine for beauty tips when you have 8 year olds?

WOW....2009

I can't believe it's 2009....remember the Y2K scare?! That was almost 10 years ago?! Wow. This year was fun....we were supposed to head up to a condo in Midway/Park City, but RJ wasn't feeling so hot in the days leading up. SO...we decided to stay in town. Luckily, Sara and Bevin were having a party...and it was SO fun. We had no shortage of junk food...diet coke..and games...and fun...and even a rigorous ping pong tournament. Then RJ and I came home and broke out a bottle of Martinelli's apple cider for us and Dizzy to ring in the new year!








Of course....the midnight kiss!




And...soon, we were ALL ready for bed!

Sorry I'm a crazy cat lady...

Miss Kitty LOVES the laptop. She watches the mouse move, and when it does the little spinning "thinking" thing, she tries to catch it...hilarious. I might do it on purpose sometimes...just to watch her flip out.