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My little artist. We have to paint just about everyday now. And she got really excited when she realized I can print up just about any of her beloved characters on the computer for her to paint....





I love when Starla's room is clean, which NEVER happens!! I took advantage of her being gone this weekend and cleaned it, but of course the moment she got home there were toys scattered everywhere. I can't seem to convince her to pick them up......sigh.



oh how I love having a little girl, with a girly room..... :)




So, Starla got a head cold the very first day of her mother's day out class, and she gave it to me. I was lucky enough to have it ALLLLLL weekend long. Sigh. My parents decided to take the kids to the lake with them, which gave me lots of opportunity to clean house and rest, which was nice. I have now given the head cold to Alan. Fun times. I am not quite over it, but feeling much better. I still get all light headed and off balance, with my balance being all off since my ears were all clogged due to sinus pressure. Fun times.

Although I am loving student teaching, I am so sad that I don't get to hang out with my mommy friends and make zoo and omniplex trips during the week, and go out on a weeknight to celebatory birthday dinners.....sigh. I am so excited to be a teacher, I really am. But I really love being a stay at home mommy (even a student one with school mixed in!)!!! I wish I could do it for a couple more years until Starla started school full time. But oh well. I still will get a break at the end of student teaching, because I don't plan on being employed until the new school year starts in August. So I guess that's something. I never got to stay home when the boys were little, Starla is the first baby I've gotten to stay home with and it's just really nice to be there for everything.

But, Student teaching is going well. Today was the first full day, and it really went by in a blur. The first 3 hours always seem to drag by, but then it was over before I knew it! I really like the kids in my class. I still have my favorite, which also happens to be my mentor teachers least favorite, which I find amusing. He's a slow learner. He's actually qualified for Learning Disabled, but his parents don't want him to take part in that. He's really bright, he just has a really hard time focusing and paying attention. So I constantly am redirecting him. He's a very large kid too, almost my height. But his dad came in last week, and he was a giant of a man, so I can see why! He's very child-like though, very immature for his age. My mentor teacher has little patience with him, but I'm quite certain she can tell thet he is my favorite, so she tries to be patient when I am around. :) His last years teacher started talking about him in the teachers lounge today at lunch about how he will wear you out and will always be in detention and not to expect anythin else out of him, and my teacher kept glancing at me and trying to change the subject, while trying to agree with the teacher as well. Oh well. I can't help but like him, maybe it's because he reminds me of Roman, who has a problem sitting still and focusing as well. Who knows. But my mentor seemed to dislike him from the start and not give him a chance, based on what last years teacher had told her. She told me about him before he even came in on the very first day. Which I think it kinda sad. Maybe that's why my heart goes out to him too. Anyways. I get to teach science for 3 days a week for 3 weeks starting next week, so I'm pretty excited about that. We are going to the eletrical currents with batteries & light bulbs the first week, electromagnets the second week and then static electricity and review of it all the third week. Not only am I excited to be doing it, but the poor kids in this class only get to do textbooks and worksheets ALLL day long. She's had the science kits for like 3 years and has NEVER opened them!!! It's crazy. She has all this really neat stuff and doesn't use it at all, which I can't even fathom. So I'm excited to show the kids that learning can be fun. And she even admits, she is excited to learn some new stuff from me too. I hope she ends up trying out new stuff and letting the kids do more than deskwork. We shall see.