New Year!

Today marked the start of my 11th year of teaching! Jack started 2nd grade at Leverett and Nolan started a new daycare. It was a great day overall!

Nolan loves his new school which in turn makes me love his new school. He struggled with his school last school and cried every day I dropped him off. Every. Day. Spider monkey and all...it was terrible. After two days at his new school he was walking in on his own and waving good-bye! Huge progress!

He is in the 2-3 year old room. Nolan loves Spider-Man, Superman, and Ninja Turtles right now. He is a funny boy who loves to make people laugh and make silly faces. He is a little bit of a Jekyll and Hyde because when I'm not around he is an angel child and listens without crying or whining and the moment I come in the tears flow. No one can figure it out. 

Jack is so excited about 2nd grade and told his teacher during open house that his favorite subject is math. He definitely didn't get that from me. He is an inquisitive boy and his new favorite show is 20/20 because he loves to hear other people's stories. That he does take after me!! He is smart, funny and a nice kid and I hope he has a great year!

Nolan

So, I'm terrible with keeping this post up and I've decided that I'm going to use it as a reminder of all the funny things my crazy kids do or say. First up...Nolan Hinkson. He is a crazy 2 1/2 year old and is totally giving me hell this summer! 

When I have to do lawn work and it's just Nolan and I then I usually have him watch Turtles to keep him still. He has never been the type of kid to dig out food/paint/, etc. and make giant messes. Well, I spoke too soon...I was out mowing and Nolan said he wanted to come outside. He goes inside to grab his shoes and takes longer than anticipated so I go inside. He comes out with white powder like material all over him. Back story here...we had french toast that morning and he LOVED the powdered sugar. So, low and behold he decided he needed more on what little he had left on his plate. He got the powdered sugar off the counter and dumped some more on his plate and then continued dumping more on the floor, the dog food bowl, and all over the floor when he couldn't get the bag back on the counter. 

I came in upset with the giant mess and started to get on to him and asking him what happened and all he could say was "I don't know." I brought him over to the bag and pointed at it and said Look, what did you do? His response "Oh no! What happened?!" After I cleaned up the mess I had to laugh it off because he was so shocked at the mess and had no clue what had happened. Crazy kid.