Better to Laugh

We finished our first week of school, 178 more days left in the school year.  Wednesday was a bear:  copier down, laminator roller full of melted plastic, new wireless network did not connect to my LAN drive making it so I could not get documents I needed, etc.  But we just kept SMILING even if we had to FAKE IT! 

I really enjoyed seeing the students.  Two of my favorite student quotes from the first week: 

A 1st grader was supposed to be counting push-ups for his 3rd grade partner.  When I asked the first grader how many his partner did so that I could record it, he looked up with the sweetest face and said, “A wot.”  Luckily, his partner was counting, also.

During warm-ups, a third grader said, “Ms. Dawn, you look like you have been working out your whole life!”  Okay, so it came from a third grader, but it is nice to have your effort recognized.

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Two stories of identification by the back of the head:

About 40 years ago, my aunt and mom were driving down the road with my cousin, Mark,  in the backseat.  They commented that the car in front of them was from another state.  My cousin piped up and said, “How can you tell, by the shape of their heads?”

Fast forward to present day.  We are singing in church, and my husband leans over and tells me that he thinks he spots my teen nephew that we haven’t seen much in the past few years.  “The back of his head looks like Josh.”  I wondered how he knew a kid by the back of his head.  He replied, “I ran behind him for a while during the Sam Costa Half Marathon last March.”  I guess it is worthwhile to pay attention while you are running.  If you have read my other blogs, you know that there are about a hundred things on my mind while I run.

Wow, my cousin Mark was a wee boy 40 years ago?!

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If you think formula spit up smells nasty, just wait until they start eating veggies.  Whoever came up with the vomit in The Exorcist must have had a little one in their life.  Word to the wise:  wear old paint clothes at feeding time during this stage.

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A four year-old sitting in the seat of a shopping cart says calmly to his mother, “I am losing my patience.”

Usually a four year-old losing his patience looks and sounds like loud stomping, screaming, crying, and/or whining.

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I was baking banana bread yesterday.  After I had the batter mixed, it just didn’t look like the right consistency.  I was bewildered and wondered what to do when I realized that the mashed bananas were still in their bowl right in front of me.  What do you call banana bread with no bananas?

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