Yellowstone-Best Buds

Yellowstone was tons of fun. This last week I showed my new class some of the pictures and they LOVED them.

Corwin was particularly cute during the trip and we became best buds. His parents unfortunately stayed in the cabin most the time taking care of his sick sister.

As we walked around Yellowstone we had 6 adults and 3 children so the adults had the advantage. :)

With 2 of the kids being three year olds we had to make a rule that if they were walking they had to hold an adults hand. I held Corwin's hand for a while and then Grandpa wanted a turn. After a while of having to keep up with Grandpa's big steps Corwin got tired and let go. Jeni reminded him that he had to hold someones hand. She offered him choices "Do you want to hold Aunt Jeni's hand, or Uncle Jered's, or Grandma's, or Uncle Jeron's, or Aunt Oly's." After given the choice to hold my hand he said Aunt Oly's.

I don't really blame the kid. There are times I have trouble keeping up with Jeron and he's a couple inches shorter than his dad.

So for most of the time at Yellowstone you could find Corwin and I behind everyone by a step or two. He loved talking with me about the colors and sounds and animals.

One of my favorite conversations was when we were talking about a bird we saw. I changed the topic and said "Oh it's sinky." Corwin replied "Yup, stinky bird." I laughed and said "I think its the sulfer that's making it stinky." Corwin said "No, stinky bird." Oh the joy's of children.

This is a picture of Corwin showing me where we were on the map. He saw a group of people looking at a map and realized what they were doing. The first map he showed me, he traced all the dotted lines to show me where we were going next. It seemed truly realistic, he made tons of loops and went all over the map.

So in short Corwin and I became "best buds". I had tons of fun at Yellowstone. This summer was actually the first time I'd ever been and it was so much fun to go with Jeron's family!

I'll have to post more later. I have no idea when that will be though. :)

Reading to Elvis

So I have to say, the other day I was thinking as I was working with my kindergarten kids "I think my dog gets talked to more than some of these kids." These kids are great but what made me think that was some of them struggled to find the top of the page. When I told them to move their pencil up they looked to me for confirmation. Elvis knows up and down really well and... well me being the crazy person i am I've even read to him too.

Panic Room

This blog post has been brought to you by Jeron.

So Oly just sent me into the spare bedroom for stamps that she said were in a blue basket on the bed. The only thing on the bed was sheets and a red box. I told her I didn't see anything else on the bed. Being the amazing woman that she is, she came to make sure I wasn't being lazy and she also did not see the basket. Elvis followed her in too. After she looked around and did not see the basket in sight she said exasperatedly, "Panic." Elvis immediately put his front feet up on her legs as if to help her not panic. We both had a good laugh and we eventually found the basket and stamps in another room of the house.