Popcorn Girl and a Mummy Tortoise

Wednesday morning I did my volunteer time in Paige's class.  I was helping a few kids that needed a little extra help writing sentences.  Last time I helped kids out in the hall and Paige was sad she didn't see me much.  This time she was glad I stayed in the classroom.  She kept coming over to tell me something or give me a hug.  When I was leaving she asked me "How come you never pick me?"  Haha.  I told her Mrs. Arnold ASSIGNS me a job, I don't just come in there and pick the kids I like the best."  :)

Then I took the other two to storytime with Veronica and Aivree, and we saw Nicole and her littler girls there too.  Cason was happy to see Delaney, and went to sit up front with them.  (We were the slackers walking in right when it was about to start and had to sit in back.)  It was Neely's first time if I remember right.  If she did ever go it was as a newborn. She liked it, but was a little shy.  She stayed right up against me, being all stoic.  She DID shake her eggs to the music though.  :)

After we picked Paige up we met Veronica again, at the park this time.  The big girls don't get to see each other as often now that they're in Kindergarten, so we got them together.  Veronica taught the kids about Spiderswing.

 

 

Lily and Cason did some "cartwheels".  :)

 On Thursday Jess had his mom pick him up in the morning on her way to work so he could get there early and get some stuff done.  I got all 3 kids ready and we all took Paige to school without Jess's help, for the first time.  It actually wasn't too bad dropping her off.  The hard part was getting myself and them all ready, making Paige's lunch, and making breakfast for three kids who all really wanted something ELSE for breakfast and happened to be a bit cranky that morning.  (Paige wasn't actually, she's never cranky on a school morning, but she DID wish I made a different breakfast)  

After we dropped her off I went to see her popcorn word board, because she told me they got her school picture on her little popcorn now.  :)

Her tiny little face looks so cute on that gigantic board.

 

Then Caso and Neely and I went home.  They played out front for a bit.  Caso was drawing letters and numbers with chalk and said "Mama I made a D!"  Neely was coming over to check it out in this picture, and telling him "I WIKE a d, Cason!" even though he'd already moved on to his next letter, an E with a little something extra.  Ha.

When we picked Paige up we came home and started working on some birthday gifts for daddy.  Cason kicked things off with a picture of "Daddy and me running to hug".

That boy's a real perfectionist with his drawings lately.  He made many attempts that he was pretty angry at for being "SOOOO STINKY!" which usually meant the head wasn't as circular as he liked or the eyes were uneven or something.  

This is one of the reject piles.

There were more on the floor.

He also drew daddy as a bomberman, with all his bombs.  He ended up cutting the bombs off this picture and telling me he was going to use them to make a bomb game.  So he drew another one for daddy, with more colorful bombs.  A rainbow of bombs.

This is unrelated to Jess's birthday, but he also brought me this picture of Sammy(our tortoise) as a mummy for Halloween.  He asked when we can go outside to give it to Sammy.  I'm dreading that because even if we catch Sammy when he's out and about, Caso's most likely going to have his feelings hurt when he sees the lack of a reaction Sammy's likely to give.  Ha.

I love how the animal mummies only have bandages on their heads.  :)