there is a reason there was such a large gap between my most recent post and the one before it. i have no time to write. but i have to write about these things the kids said before i get to a post about the 2nd Annual Possible Impossibilities 10K!!
first- coloring. i am so tired in the mornings when i arrive that i usually color for most of the morning. it's great when all the girls are at the table because i feel like i am interacting with them, all the while trying to wake up still.
i am a coloring master. yes, i am a good 15 years or so older than most of the kids, and i have had all the time to perfect my coloring skills, but, almost every day i get compliments on my great coloring skills. sometimes they just sit and watching me color...kind of awkward. but, i am glad to have the title of best color-er... ;)
Kaitlin- pyscho-perky- freakishly smart, tiny 6 year old girl. she colors me a picture every day. first time she spelled my name right. since then, the amount of 'E's' in jen varies from 2-3: jeen, jene, jeene... this same girl- kaitlin- can entertain herself coloring, reading a book, or one morning, playing mancala (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala) - great game. she was playing a game and i came over and asked if she wanted to play me in a game. she agreed and of course she went first. her turn lasted FOREVER. she was so good. she got at least half, if not more, of the marbles in her side of the board before i even had a turn. so i comment on how good she is and that we need to play another game so i can win. she goes- 'uh, probably not. i usually only play 2 games of mancala a day and this is my second. so i probably can't play with you again.' thanks.
as soon as sam (2nd grade) got into the cafeteria one day he immediately comes up to me and asks me to play LIFE with him. I am half asleep, but agree. we had got everything set up, we each took a turn. one boy comes up to us and watches us play. right away sam tells him to leave, but i tell sam that he isn't hurting us by watching and say that he wants to stay and watch ME win the game. sam goes, 'i'll win!' and the boy, luke (kindergarten), goes, 'sam- parent's have life 50 years of experience playing games, you won't win.' i died. (so i'm assuming i am considered a parent because i'm a grown up). ' my dad even has 50 years of experience.' i go, luke, is your dad 50 and he says no. he goes 'maybe 50 years of school or something.' Sam: 'dude, college isn't 50 years, maybe like 20 or something...' i could barely keep from laughing. we play a few more turns and sam goes, 'i'm winning because i have 20 years of experience.' i say, really... sam goes 'okay, maybe 1 year i think.' seriously, most hysterical thing i have heard. if only i could record what their voices sound like on here.
i ended up loosing the game sadly. this is no good for me because i am so competitive that i hate to let the kids win.
that same morning i had to go straight to LOFT for work and i put on my black boyfriend blazer, a pink shirt, skinny jeans and flats. i walk about just before the bell rings and Sam goes' man, you sure look pretty, are you going to a prom or something?' no, no prom in jeans.
brianna (4th grade- from previous post) told me she was excited to go to high school, only she didn't want to dissect frogs because she really likes frogs and asks why she has to dissect one. i tell her that frogs are plentiful and that's just what you have to do. she goes, 'why frogs though? why can't we just dissect a lion or something...are they alive when you dissect them?' pretty sure a lion would eat you before you are able to dissect it.
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