It's Been Awhile..

since I have had some free time to blog. You will just have to be patient with me because life is busy as a mom, wife, teacher, and student. I'm not complaining - I love my life!

Hector, Santiago and I had a great weekend together. I think we will enjoy our weekends so much more now that we both are back working. It makes us treasure the time spent with Santiago on a whole new level. We went to a birthday party at our friend's house on Saturday. They have two boys - one turned 2 recently and the other turned 4. I can't wait until Santiago's birthday parties to watch him open his gifts. Braylen, the 4 year old, was so excited to open his gifts that he tore through each one barely noticing what was inside until he got to a spiderman costume. He was so excited about this gift that he did not care about anything else he opened until his dad finally let him put his spiderman costume on. Then he was ready to open the rest of his gifts. I learned an important lesson by watching Braylen - save the gift you know your child will like the most until the very end and let it be the finale gift!

So I officially finished my first week back at work with the kids and have begun a new week. I have a great class - talkative, but I think they will be great once they learn my routines and procedures and what I expect from them. First graders surprise me every day and I enjoy listening to their "words of wisdom". Just today I learned that a dog turns into a statue when it no longer feels like living. I was told that sometimes they just say "I give up, I don't want to be a living thing anymore, I want to be a nonliving thing" and they become a statue! We are learning about living and nonliving things in science and when I asked if anyone could tell me the difference between the two today, that is what I heard when I called on a student to answer. Another student today told me to take my shoe to the shoe doctor because it looked sick. When I asked why my shoe looked sick, she told me because the shiny thing is falling off. I was wearing flip flops with gemstones on them. I'm sure I will get to hear many more funny things this year :)

Santiago finally decided after months that he wanted to flip all the way over today. He did it at his grandparents house on their bed and today when I brought him home he rolled from his back to his tummy then tummy to back three times in a row and ended up completely off the blanket on the floor I had him playing on.