Pushing Bumblebee

• Daddy kept pushing Mica and the Bumblebee Transformer away on the floor. It's a good thing I swept today!
• Isaak at the tail end of this tries to steel the Bumblebee Transformer. He never did get the toy.
• This is pretty typical play around our house. Boys will be boys!

• Isaak usually gets in the way when recording a video.

Tyler Trends

• Feisty, Frugal, and Fabulous is giving away the winners choice of any shirt from Tyler Trends.
• They have very fun shirts both long sleeve and short. Their sizes go up to a 6.

Want Some Whipped Cream?

• Mica with sprayed whipped cream in his mouth.

Sit Down

• A few weeks ago Isaak started saying, "Eat" at the dinner table to Mica and a few times to Mom and Dad as well.
• Now he points at Mica at the table and says, "Sit down".

Don't Mix My Food

• I use the plastic divider kid plates for Isaak.
• Last night I took Isaak's snap peas and set them on the section of his plate that had his turkey sitting there. I did this because he had hummus on his plate too, and he almost drug his sleeve in it.
• He gave me a disapproving look, and moved his snap peas back into the section of his plate that they were on before. It was as if he was thinking, "Don't move my food into one section Mommy".

Snugfits

• One Snugfits shirt is being given away at My Wee View. Go there to win one!
• I was so lucky to win 2 of these shirts from Pour Some Sugar on Me.
• They have short sleeve, long sleeve, onesie's, and they sell Baby Legs at their store too.
• If I win one this time I'll be giving to my dear friend Sarah that is pregnant. I'm so excited for her. This will be her third child. She has a set of girl twins that are 3 years old.

• They sell some very cool sayings on their shirts! I decided on "To Live and Let Live" since Mica sings "To Live and Let Die" he sings "Liver Mint Die" a lot. We call Isaak a Punk sometimes, so that's why I picked that one.

• I love the material. It's soft. Wears well. The color selection is great too!
• The only thing I do not like is that they don't have sizes past 18-24 month. But they are working on that. I would get more cool shirts from Snugfits if they had bigger sizes. Isaak looks so cute in his Punk and Live and Let Live shirts!

Inspiration of the Day

• This is wax off of our drip tray in the printers at school.
• I think they are pretty cool.
• You can actually draw with them like crayons.

Pet Peeve of the Day

• My pet peeve today is when other teachers do not hand back student artwork and papers. They just leave them sitting up at the front of the room for the students to collect.
• It bugs me because I think that stuff is private; other people's grades shouldn't be looked through. It gets so cluttered at the front of the room, artwork can get lost this way.
• Plus it makes more work for me because I feel the need to hand it back.

I Don't Know What's Gotten Into Me Lately

• I've just been sort of up and down lately.
• With my mom's surgery coming up, and other stresses like school starting Monday it's put me in a funk of a mood.
• I've been really sarcastic in a bitchy sort of way and in a ha ha sort of way.
• A co-worker of mine went to Cancun. He had a photo up on Facebook of a beautiful sunrise. I made a comment, "Totally Photoshoped". He had another one of his beautiful little boy sleeping on the beach and I said, "Passed out drunk". This guy gets my sense of humor, so I knew he'd find it funny.
• Then two of my other co-worker's got in an argument the other day. I sat all quite in my office. As if nothing was going on. One guy was asking another guy some technical information, and the other guy told him, "Just go look it up". It ended with an, "I don't want to talk to you" and "You're being a real jerk". Totally out of the normal! Later on one of the guys had a question and I couldn't resist...I said, "Go look it up".
• Then the education director was telling me I needed reading assignments in all of my classes. One class I don't have a book because I was told a few years ago it was over budget. I kept asking her, "How am I supposed to have reading assignments on a book that doesn't exist?" I had to search online for PDF's for reading assignments. I got some, but I'm still not totally convinced that for a hands on Illustration course they need to read. I have them do a paper and have graded discussions. She told me that her boss was the one who wanted the reading to be in the syllabus. I sarcastically said that she was making that up, and should just admit that she's the one that wants it. Go to find out she was lying. I asked her boss today - not in a way that would get her in trouble.
• Then Daddy was chatting with me on Facebook when he was right there in the same room as me. I told him, "Go take care of your 4 shirts and 3 pair of shoes laying around". He blew me off and went to the bathroom. I leaned over on his computer and wrote something like, "Honey I'll clean up because I love you". I sent him a message back from my computer that said, "I love you to". He read it and laughed.
• So...see I've been in a funky mood! Gotta watch myself, or I'll get in trouble.

Surgery Postponed

• I just got a call that my Mom's (Grandma Spiehs to the boys) ankle fusion surgery has been postponed.
• The doctor is sick. I don't want a doctor operating on my mom for 3 hours when he is sick.
• I get more time to make cookies for the nurses that take care of my mom. That's not a big deal, but I like to do a good job when decorating.
• The bad part is that we were all ready for it to happen. My whole family was nervous, and we get to be nervous all over again.
• One of my sister's and I start teaching next week. It's hard taking time off when not just anybody can fill in for you.
• My mom said that today she woke up and just couldn't walk without her brace. It's like her body knew that it was time to give up, and let the doctor take over. The power of the mind is HUGE in my opinion.