Funny Bunny

Saw this picture and thought it was funny. Jay and her daughter Lexi are visiting for the weekend. Lexi told me a cute joke.... "What do scaredy-cats eat for lunch?" answer.....chicken! I love 5th grade humor! :)

Sometimes the things my students say during “speech” just tickles me. Here are a couple of the latest. While working on answering “Where” questions…. “You just checked out a book to take home. Where are you?” child: the library “You just bought stamps. Where are you?” child: the post office “You just got off an airplane. Where are you?” child: DISNEY WORLD!! (Its been a cold, snowy winter….. of course that is where we’d all be if we took a plane somewhere!!) A 6 year old boy as he comes into the room realizing the school-wide reading night was the night before….. “I missed family read night last night? WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME??”

Not a Llama anymore...

She is looking better! By spring she will be her ol' cute self!! :)

Funny kids...

Apparently wrestling action figures come in different sizes... I was picking up two of my boys to for speech therapy when one of them said he wanted me to see his new action figure. It was in his locker so he opened it and pulled out a giant doll from his backpack. He held it out for me to admire and the other student gaped at the gigantic figure and said, "Wow, I have that guy... in a smaller virgin." :)

What discovered while talking to Dill about his social studies test. Dill: I did ok, but I missed the 15 point part. Me: What was the question ? Dill: Why would somebody want to come to Michigan. Me: What did you say? Dill: I couldn’t remember a lot of the natural resources and stuff. I put: "to see the Great Lakes, to learn about lake effect and to meet the governor, but I don’t really think she’s that good.” ☺

Funny kids take one...

Pepper has been working with some students on the “th” sound. She asks the kids questions where the answer is a word that starts with “th”.

Pepper to 1st student: “What day comes after Wednesday?”

1st student: “Thursday!”

Pepper to second student: “On your hand you have 4 fingers and a……?”

2nd student: “Thumb!”

Pepper to 3rd student: When you really want a drink you are……?”

3rd student: “Dehydrated!!”

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The decorators and the un-decorator!

Snowy fun!

Everyone had great fun making this snowman for the yard. Dill did most of the rolling but it took Dori, Pepper and I all to lift the middle snowball onto the bottom one! Everyone helped decorate him. :)

Slippy Slidy!

Sunday was quite a day. We started off all headed to church (except Pete who spent the night at church with his youth group) through about two inches of snow that had started falling around midnight. The roads weren’t great, but for around here, definitely not the worst we’ve seen. As I was driving I was chatting about the contract Dill and I had made so that he could have $50.00 to buy holiday gifts at his school store. The whole family was joking and laughing about how expensive it was to buy gifts when you have a large family when I suddenly hit a spot of black ice and the car started spinning out of control. I was only going about 15 mph so it really took me by surprise. We turned completely around and slammed into a mailbox on the other side of the road and slid into a ditch. We needed a snowplow to help pull us out of the ditch and then we were on the road again. The passenger side mirror was left dangling and the running board was smashed underneath the car, but no other damage was visible. (besides a very mangled mailbox!!) We got onto the expressway rather than taking the back roads to church thinking the roads would be better and slid again. We sort of teetered on the edge of the on ramp and I needed to put us in 4 wheel drive low to get us back on the road. This time, we got out on our own but I could not get the car out of 4 WD low once we got on the highway. By this point, we were already 30 minutes late for church and decided to limp back home. It was amazing how long it took us to get home when the fastest you can drive is 20 MPH. But, we made it home and everyone was safe. We missed church, but everyone in the car said they prayed a lot while we were spinning out of control and dangling on three wheels off the on ramp!
We were planning to go to Pepper’s parents house for birthday celebrations but we’d had enough driving excitement for the day so we decided to postpone the visit. Spent the rest of the day cooking and playing in the snow with the kids. Tomorrow we get to call the insurance company and fix a mailbox in the frigid cold…. But no one was hurt, everyone is safe and we did make it to church to pick up Pete. (Who was having so much fun with his youth group he didn’t even notice that we weren’t there when we were supposed to be!)