2004-04-28 - 7:30 p.m.
mr. hoppy is so much nicer now. when i pick him up, he wraps his little feet around my fingers stares up at me with his buggy little eyes. ok, it's cuter than it sounds. my kids think he's awesome.
speaking of awesome, the other day another teacher gave me her extra pocket chart. i said "awesome!" because i'm a teacher and get excited about pocket charts. one of my girls looks at me in shock and says, "you say...AWESOME?" like i'm so old i wouldn't know what it means. rar!
here's something funny that happened at school: i tutor some of my kids after school. i took them into the copy room to make some copies and the boy wandered around the bathrooms. as we were leaving he says, "why do you get a napkin machine in the bathroom?" i was like, "huh?" he goes, "there's a machine than says napkins and tissues. you're so lucky!" ok....hmmm....it doesn't say tissues. yeah, it says tampons. rather than explain about the tampons, i said, "ok, let's go add some fractions!"
also, the other day, we went out to recess. everything was going fine and well until we were lining up. all of a sudden, i hear this loud pop and a scream. it was like a freaking drive-by! i look around and my girls are all crowded around one girl who is sobbing and screaming. so i'm trying to figure out what was happening, and i say "what's going on?" dumb. 14 kids start yelling in my face. i pointed at one and was like, "explain!" apparently, one of my girls didn't eat her applesauce at lunch, so she put the little plastic cup in her coat. when we were lining up, it fell out and someone stomped on it causing it to explode! did you know those thigs explode? they explode! here's the scene: crushed, exploded applesauce lunch cup, yelling children, and a girl with her entire face beneath a mask of applesauce! applesauce in her hair! applesauce on her shirt! applesauce in her eyes! applesauce! applesauce! applesauce! so i run two girls off with the applesauce monster to the bathroom, bark at everyone else to get in line, and have them march silently into the building. when we were going up the stairs, one of my girls whispers to me, "it's sad that she hurt her eyes, but come on, that was pretty funny." i was like, "no it is not!"
yeah it was. ha ha ha!
