... sorry. :-( This couple of weeks was insanely busy. I had to finish my school year with an all day Junior High Musical rehearsal/performance on the 16th. I had 40 kids all by myself from 10 am until about 8 pm for the whole production. I have realized that my JH classes are now too big to combine and will have to do their own show from here on out unless my enrollment drops. Since that's not likely it may mean more work during the school day, but it will be worth it to avoid the chaos of that combined Saturday like this year. Ugh! The Monday following that I had the Max Awards (Oscar's style awards that our drama club puts together for the faculty and staff at the school), writing grading period ending tests, AND final exams, clearing/cleaning out my classroom for the year, setting up and implamenting an "Amazing PALs Race" and Lock-in to close out the school year for them, and getting all my grades done so I don't have to go back to work until mid-August! Whew!! I'm wiped out, but Richard reminded me to get caught up on here so we can clear out the camera and get ready for more! It was the least I could do today!
Richard is humming right along at work, then here at home he has taken the yard and landscaping seriously. We had planted the acorns earlier this year and now he added trees. We now have 2 Chinese Pistash and 3 fruit trees. He also clipped our lone Poplar in the back so it is looking very tree-like instead of like a giant bush. He has gotten all the edging around the house cleared out and we are hoping to do some planting next year there when the weeds have been under control for a while. He has taken over all of the mowing (which before had me running ragged to keep up with while keeping the house alone too). It has been so great. The yard looks nice and tended! He also was super sweet today and swept and steam mopped the floors (one of my usual Saturday chores) because I had that lock-in last night at the school and laid down to nap with Jansen. I woke up to squeaky clean floors! Yeah!!
Jansen started crawling (finally) Sunday the 24th. He crawls to something and immediately pulls up. He doesn't seem to have much love for crawling. For him it seems a means to get somewhere only so that he can get upright as soon as possible. He is standing alone for a couple of seconds at a time now so walking may come sooner rather than later, but we'll see. He is so active and busy now-a-days. It has gotten virtually impossible to get anything done during his wake time so that means this summer I will have to be stratigically planning nap time duties! At least he still naps pretty good so far. He also had his last day at the Amazing Grace's house. Since she is going back into the workforce this summer we have to move out on Friday. OK, so we didn't really have THAT much stuff there, but it did really feel like a good-bye. We have decided on doing a playday each week until school starts again so hopefully we won't lose her completely! She has been so wonderful and has become a great friend through out this year!! She made Jansen a scrapbook of his days with her and her kids and gave it to us on his last day. It is awesome! She will be a tough act for the next sitter or daycare to follow, I tell you! Jansen also says "Ka" now so when he gets going he sounds like a little crow "Ka-ing" away. It's pretty cute. We have also come back to a screaming/yelling phase again. It seems these phases pass, then return after a short time so... "It's baaaaaa-aack!" He also has two teeth cut now and it looks like at least on on the top and maybe two are shortly behind. I know I'm in no hurry for them to get here. This little guy is a rough teether. I think he got my temper, but definitely not my pain tolerence!
Jonathan is finishing up his school year this next week. I got out before he did this year. He brought wonderful news with him last weekend... He PASSED ALL his state tests. We were all anxious to get the results as here in TX you can not move on past the 3rd grade until you have passed that level of exams. The same will hold true in regards to 11th and graduating so we have a while before it is quite so heavy a burden, but he'll still have exams each year and if he doesn't pass those they generally make the kids go to summer school so it's still a big deal. He let us know by saying, "Well, I'll be going to 4th grade next year." He was so cool about it when we had all been so wound up waiting for the results! He's so funny! More pics of him this next round. I promise. We had no batteries for the camera last weekend so we missed out. Boo!
Cody has learned a way to avoid hurting Jansen that is really very sweet. He has such monster paws that accidentally catching Jansen with them is something that we have been stressing with him, especially now that Jansen is on the floor with him even more. He has taken to curling his front paws under his chest when he's laying on the floor by Jansen. It is really cute. He does get excited and forget so we do have to keep watching him (which we would anyway), but it really seems that he does it consciously. He also licks Jansen's feet, which makes him giggle. We're still working on not licking anywhere else though. The hands and face gross me out, but he generally does great with that too. He does forget now and then though if Jansen gets put back down on the floor after has been eating an especially yummy morsel.
Well ,That catches us up... My next updates should be more timely since I'M NOT WORKING until AUGUST!! WaHoo!!
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