My Girls Minus One

Tired. . . Every Morning

Does anyone else have to literally pull all of their children out of bed EVERY school day morning?  Not only do Alex and I have to repeat this extraction process time and time again, we then have to turn around and find them flat on the floor when they are supposed to be getting ready.  Help!

Mother's Day Tea with The Belle

After the African Market, I made my way over to Adeline's school for their school wide Mother's Day Tea.  While most children have anticipation and excitement over the event, I am not sure Adeline fully understands what it means when I tell her that I will be at her school for the Mother's Day Tea.  It is really hard to know.  Because of this, I always worry that she will have an adverse reaction to all of the people or spot me in the crowd and want to come and sit on my lap.  I was pleasantly surprised.  Adeline immediately saw me and waved with a very cute, "Hi, Mommy."  She did a great job singing the songs and doing the motions.  At the end, when the preschool director stood up to speak, Adeline stepped down and climbed into her teacher's lap.  She rested her head on her should, then raised up and said, "I love you Stueve."  Priceless!!



After the singing, we joined together for some snacks and fellowship.  Adeline presented me with a gift she made.  She also had a drawing of me.  She initially did make a circle for my head and dot some eyes in but covered it up with her scribbles.  She isn't quite ready to draw due to the weakness in her fingers.

The most touching part of my time with her - possibly the only time she wasn't shoveling M&Ms in her mouth- was when she turned to me with a spontaneous, "Happy Mother's Day," followed by a hug.  I almost fell over.  She is really starting to get things! 

African Market

Today, Savannah's Kindergarten class put on an African Market. This activity was the culmination of a very exciting unit they have been working on for the past couple of months. Savannah chose to work the rain forest station because she was most interested in the gorillas. T. Michelle shared the story of Koko and his kitten which immediately grabbed Savannah's attention.  Savannah and her friend Lydia did a great job of presenting their information to parents and then to the students in her school.  I think they were pretty worn out after an hour of talking.  One thing was certain, Savannah was very proud of the work she put into this day.




Here is an example of another exhibit. There were about seven of them in all. It was rather impressive.