Such a good year!

Most people find out I teach 8th grade and have the same sort of reaction. "Oh, you are brave" or "How do you handle those kids?" or something to that effect. Before I started teaching I would have thought that I would have been scared of them myself, but I love my job! This year that just past has been my favorite so far. It went super fast, especially since I was gone for a third of it with Jackson's birth, and I had the greatest kids. I absoluetly LOVED my homeroom class this year. They were such a fun group of young men and young women and I really got to know each and every one of them. They are smart, respectful, (I never had any major discpline problems with them) and they were fun to teach. They even would get excited about the things they were learning. A teacher's dream come true!
The last couple of weeks of the school year were so fun. We have tons of special 8th grade promoting activities and it is fun to watch the kids be kids. Sometimes I have to remind myself that they are really just children in almost grown up bodies but being with them at Disneyland and playing games with them proves just that. I will really miss this group of kids and I hope that my class next year will be just as great.

Aren't they cute! This was right before the promotion ceremony in case you are wondering why they are dressed up.

Besides hoping to get another great class, I am excited about next year for another reason. I will working part time, 3 days a week, so that I can stay home with Jackson a little more. I think it will be a really good balance for me.

by the way- I'm not sure about the legalites of putting minor's pictures on the web. If somebody knows that its a problem please let me know. I don't want to get in trouble I just wanted to show off my awesome class.

Dodger Game

I know it has been a long time since my last post. Life has just gotten very busy.
Last weekend we took Jackson to his first baseball game. I don't know who thought this would be a good idea. It started at 7 and he starts to get ready for bed at 8, applause scares him, and he hates to be confined to sitting in your lap. But we went anyway!!! We only lasted until the 4th inning and even then we were up and down with him the whole time. Despite all of that I was super excited to see him wear his hat and carry his glove. He loves the taste of leather apparently!
We kept trying to get him on the jumbo-tron but were unsuccessful. Maybe next time if we stay for the whole game we'll get him on.

Easter Eggs

I know he's a little young but we didn't want Jackson to miss out on his first Easter dying Easter Eggs. I think he enjoyed himself. He was definitely interested in what he and daddy were doing!

1st Picture Session

We took Jackson to get pictures taken this week. I wasn't quite sure how he would do but he was such a ham! He was giggling and flirting with the girl taking the pictures. It was so much fun, and so hard to decide which ones to buy. Here are just a few of my favorites.

Reading

On Jackson's 5 month birthday (I can't beleive its already been 5 months) he was enjoying his book of colors. (With 2 teachers for parents we want to start reading early!)

Here he is enjoying green.

Jackson: "Wow, this is a great book, green is so interesting!"

"Frogs are green...okay..."

"I wonder what is on the next page!"

"YELLOW!! I DON"T LIKE YELLOW!!"

I guess for now we'll stick to green!

Bath Time!

A couple of months ago Jackson would scream and scream until his bath was over. As you can see he now very much enjoys his bath time. I think he would stay in the water and splash all night long if we let him. I always think he looks so cute in his towel.

My Sweet Boy

I don't have any funny or cute stories about this one, and I know its a little blurry, but I just love his cute little face in this picture!