What a Wednesday!

My niece and nephew, Bianca & Michael, are in San Marcos for the month of July, and today I went and picked them up to go to the library. Bianca is going into 6th, Michael into 3rd. Bianca is growing up so much, and I forget that she is not the 6 year old she was just a few years ago! She's taking care of her hair, dressing appropriately, becoming a young lady. Michael, well, he's a 7 year old boy. If you don't know a 7 year old boy, think of a 3 year old boy, but bigger and with a larger vocabulary. Just plain silly. Blake loves both of them and just giggled all morning.

We went to the library for their Arts & Crafts project. Bianca was not interested, but Blake and Michael were. I will take a pic of his fan and post in a bit. After that, we went to lunch at McDonald's. Bianca played for about 5 minutes, and then she was finished, so we just chatted at the table. Blake, well, he racked himself for the first time today. He was running up to me and ran full speed into the corner of the bench. He stopped for about 3 seconds, then started screaming that he needed to go potty. Poor baby. That's not exactly a spot that mommy can kiss and make better. We ran to the restroom and he peed, and then he thought he was better. I called Joe because I didn't know what to do for him and he basically said the pain would go away.

I emailed my principal with some caution today to tell her I was interested in a Kindergarten position. I have thought about this for a long time, and all that keeps coming into my head is one student who is going into Kinder next year. She has struggled the last 6 months. She was expelled from Head Start (don't get me started on that), suspended from school 3 times, finally kicked out of head start. She's a big girl (comes to my arm pits weighs 110 lbs.), and can be aggressive. The last 3 weeks of school, I made it a point to make her feel special and give her special tasks with me. Her mom stopped me one of the last days of school and told me how much she had been talking about me at home and how she was excited to come to school now. Long story short, I emailed my principal, and she replied that she would love me to be in Kinder and wants to put me where I feel most comfortable. I am super excited. I cannot believe how easy that was. One reason I didn't tell her earlier that I wanted to move was because a friend of mine interviewed for a PK or K position and I really wanted her at our school. She got another offer, and accepted so she is off the market. I didn't want to take up a spot that could have potentially been hers.

I was planning on taking a nap, but I am on cloud 9 right now! I don't think I can sleep.