pics

Koty waiting in line for the awards ceremony for 3rd quarter.


Koty and his great reading award


Peanut at our school


Peanut on the couch eating mashed taters.


Mamaw w/ her grandchillens


Happy Birthday Koty!


Koty with his new tools



Pics that Kristi took

Party is over

and I'm still recouperating. Will get pics and updates done this week, hopefully.

New book

Koty got Henry and Mudge get the Cold Shivers today. It's also 2.7 reading level. Will prolly take him 3 days to read it. Think we're going to do a chapter a day.

Pics

Dakota introducing his new fish to his tank.


The new fish "Abetta"


Troy 3-21-09


Phoenix, Mema, Troy, and Dakota

Busy weekend that started Thurs.!

We had half a day on Thurs. Mike came and picked Koty up from school. I had to stay for meetings and such. I ran to Joplin afterward to get the last of Koty's bday pressies. Once I got home and got dinner under control I started straightening up and doing laundry in preparation for our company that was coming Friday night and Koty's bday party next week. Ended up talking to my BFF for 2 1/2 hours as well. It was good to catch up.

Friday we were out of school so grocery shopping and more cleaning. Our friends got here just in time for dinner. We had tacos w/ all the fixin's. Lots of sitting around and BSing. Stayed up WAY too late but it was well worth it.

Up early(ish) on Sat. to get around and head to OK to see the fam. Went to Mema and Pepa's first for collaborative bdays (celebrated 5 bdays and one birth) and lunch. Mema's sketti!!!! YUM!! I finally got to meet Troy! Then we went to see Honey and Fred. Visited w/ them for a while and dropped in on Kami before we headed out of town.

Decided to stop in Vinita to have some McD's cuz it was 8 p.m. and we hadn't eaten yet. Mr. Slow Poke Jim took almost an hr to eat his 6 nuggets and small fries so here I was w/ an hr left to drive at 9 o'clock at night working off 4 hrs of sleep. Not the best combination but we did make it safe and sound.

While in OK, Koty got some birthday money and he decided to spend some on a Betta fish. He's been wanting one for a while and when the lil goldfish he got at the carnival died, he decided that he wanted a betta as a replacement when I suggested that he could buy another fish with his birthday money. So, today we ended up in Joplin at Petsmart since our pet store in Neosho isn't open on Sun. or Mon. We also visited Best Buy, the mall, and Game Exchange before we got the fish. He has named him "Abetta". I will post pictures once we get him settled in the tank.

So there's my weekend in a nutshell. Next weekend will be just as crazy!!

Bragging

So yesterday, Koty brings home a book from school to read that he has on his bookshelf. He's reading and I started wondering what AR reading level it was so I got on renlearn to check. To my astonishment it was 1.9 (1st grade, 9th month). I thought it might be beginning first grade but had no idea it was that high. Today he comes home w/ a Henry and Mudge book. This one has chapters!!! I looked it up and it's a 2.7. He's having a little more trouble than he did last night but is still managing. I asked his teacher about STAR testing him to see exactly what his level is and she said she'd try to get that done. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!

The weekend is over...

And I think I need to go back to work to rest. We went to the carnival and had a good time. Today was Raegan's birthday party. Kids had a blast. I dunno who came up w/ the idea for indoor blow up toys but I wish I would have!!! It's genius!
Koty playing on a bouncy dinosaur.

Koty climbing up to the top of the big slide.

Raegan the Birthday Girl

Can I die now???

Grade cards - CHECK...lesson plans - CHECK...copies - CHECK So NOW can i die??

OHHHHHHH wait no, still have 1 more day of school and tomorrow w/ no special and i think recess duty both recesses, get the room ready for the carnival, show up at the carnival early enough that koty can participate and still spend my obligatory hour in my room at my station. THEN go to Raegan's bday party on Sunday. Then there is grocery shopping and all the normal shtuff so i guess the answer is No i cannot die yet. *sigh*

What a bust!

Well, we went to Joplin to search for bday things. Found NOTHING! So back home to order it online like I should have just done in the first place. But Koty and I had a good day together, so that was nice.

I did pick up a double ended crochet hook so I could try my hand at something new. It's going well so far I think. The internet has been flickering on and off so I've had plenty of time to work at it. We'll see what the end product looks like.

TGIF

Ok so I think this was my title last Friday but it's still true!! I think it will be for many a Friday to come. Spring is the busiest time in the school year aside from August, I think. It will make me crazy and even more ready for Summer, I'm sure.

So tomorrow is a Joplin adventure in search of birthday supplies for Koty's bday. Hoping to find a good deal on them locally so I don't have to pay shipping. Iron Man is the theme this year. He did decide he didn't want Mommy to make his cake this year so we are getting one at Walmart *sniff sniff*

Was a lovely day today. Took Koty to the park after school. Spent about an hour. Can't wait till it gets lots warmer and we can do it more often. Also want to get to work on the yard and get our garden spot set up. Koty needs his corn, strawberries and pumpkins :)

Ok so lots of pics to post today. Got one of Koty's tests back today and it's just so cute I have to share.
You can't see it as well as I'd hoped but the pic is of him and his friends in his favorite weather. This is what he wrote "We are in sunny wethr. My frend is Chevy. Me and my frend we play ni the wodr and my three dogs and my four cats." Translation if you can't make it out...We are in sunny weather. My friend is Chevy. Me and my friend, we play in the water and my three dogs and my four cats.

Other pics .... I finally got the pics of me from Con.

Weekend

Well, the weekend wasn't quite at busy as I'd had it planned. It started snowing Sat. a.m. and Mom sent Stacy w/ her own vehicle instead of trading like they planned so the kids didn't come up to visit. It continued to snow off and on all day. We did go to Chris's wedding. It was beauuuuuuuuuutiful! I have pics but need to get them off my cam. Sunday was fun. Nice relaxing morning then got ready to go to Tyler's bday party. He had a great party. Got lots of neat stuff. (again w/ the pics being still on the cam) That should be my goal this week...get pics off cam and onto the puter.

Oh and a brag on Dakota. I grabbed one of the little copied books I use in my small groups at school just to see if he'd read it. He read the whole thing and I bet he didn't miss but maybe 5 or 6 words in the whole thing. It's a 2nd grade level support book (he's in Kindergarten). I'm SOOOOO proud of him!