It's Bath Time!

Shortly after we had a quick dinner, the boys decided to go out in the back yard to play with their toy cars while my husband was fast asleep on a couch. Dylan and Ryan were pretending they were in a car race as I was sitting outside observing their play time.

Unexpectedly, the water sprinkles went on. Ryan was not happy because he left one of the play sets out in the water area. Dylan, who had a big heart, was brave enough to rescue Ryan's toys with his regular clothes. However, Dylan decided to bend the rule by continuing to play in the water. It did not work when I scolded him to get out of the wet area. Soon enough, Ryan joined the club.

What can I do with my boys who wouldn't obey my rule? They were happily getting their clothes wet by playing tag in our tiny backyard. So, why should I bother stopping them while they were having a life-time,fun memory? I thought this would last for a short time. But, I was wrong. It didn't stop them until they were completely soaked.

Before they were completely soaked, they decided to hop in a mini mud bath. They first dove in a wading puddle before they wrestled each other. Then, they decided to wash their hair out of a dirt. It was a perfect ending before they hit for a REAL clean shower.

Now, I wonder what would David say after he learned from reading this blog. What kind of reaction do you think David might have toward me?

Silly Monday

When we all came home from work and school, the boys, including my husband decided to be silly on the first day of the week.

David surprised Ryan by flipping him over his shoulder. He giggled.

Dylan thought he could attack us when I was about to tickle him.

That's a great way to start of the week, isn't it?

Violating Personal Property

Aren't you getting sick of paying for the soaring gas price? If you are, then you are not the only ones. Many of us are suffering with the high payment.

The worst part of many people are starting to violating other people's property by stealing the gas out of your car! For instance, have you ever thought about business-suit wearing women stealing gas ? I wouldn't until the Florida newspaper gave me a wake-up call. There were no way you could read anyone anymore. Thus, we ended up deciding to buy two gas cap lock
keys this evening for our two cars. It only cost us fifteen dollars of each with key. That is far cry cheaper than losing the entire gas you had spent such as fifty or sixty dollars. Don't let this happen to you if you don't start the action. So start act it up by buying the Cap Lock Key at Pep Boys.

But the report from Idaho says lately, more people are stealing license plates before they steal gas. For those who steal the license plate, they usually go to the gas station and to fill the gas up without paying where the local gas stations do not require the pre-payment. Isn't that terrible? Again, it clears that there are so many disrespectful people for taking someone's property. However, the good news is that nearly every gas station had installed the surveillance camera.

Now, it makes me wonder what is the next thing people would do violating other's property.

Chocolate Milk

During lunch, Ryan made a comment while he was holding a cup of chocolate milk, " Mom, chocolate milk makes me brown." I thought it was a pretty good thinking since he does have olive skin like me :-=)

If you have kids said anything darndest thing to say, please share it with me. I would love to have a laugh/smile with you.

Stomach Flu?

Yesterday, both of my students were telling me that their stomach upset them. One of them ended up going home from school early.

The next morning, Dylan, my older son, woke me up at 4:15 AM telling me that his stomach did not cooperate him quite well. I immediately knew it must be the stomach flu. Otherwise, it would not worth to embrass him at school, or even getting a phone call from school if he falls asleep at school.

My younger son, Ryan did not eat much last night. I was not sure if he has the same problem as his older brother, Dylan. To be safe on the side, I ended up staying home from work, and to take care of them.

At the same time, I could catch my house chores up for the day. Let's hope their stomach upset improves later on the day.

Awesome Open House!

Just last night, Dylan, Ryan and I went to Ryan's Open House at his school site. Before we visited Ryan's two different awesome classrooms: General Education and Special Education was visiting the Art Gallery in cafeteria. Each student had their own art work displaying on the wall from each teacher. I must admit I was impressive when I saw Ryan's art display on the board. You can judge his picture.After we finished visiting the art museum, we stopped by of our favorite place: book fair. I bought three books for the boys to read: Animal Strike at the Zoo, All aboard the Dinotrain and,Tiger Can't Sleep. I can't wait for them to read these books. As soon after I finished purchasing the books, we met the other parents, teachers and students at the front of the office, where they had their dinner.

While we were waiting for teachers to allow us entering the classroom, Ryan hung around one of his good friends, Alexander from his General Education classes. He formally introduced his friend to me. " Mom, this is my friend, Alexander." " This is my mom. " Wasn't that sweet of him do this proper manner without prompts? They both had a back and forth conversation. While Ryan and Alexander were busy chatting each other, Dylan went out to chat with other person. It was a short, relaxing moment before we got ourselves busy visiting the two classrooms.
The first classroom was his General Education classes: Language Arts and Math. This teacher, Ms. Hartig had a brilliant idea by displaying her "Rain forest" classroom theme. There were brown butcher twigs with green leaves all over the classroom. She even had students coloring rain forest animals and hung them up on the trees. Can't you believe that she even brought another awesome ideas of making a binocular out of two empty toilet paper rolls and put it together?

She even had another side of the wall: Farm Animals. That also included bring the four live chicks. The Kindergartens had the opportunity to watch them hatching the eggs. I bet the kids, including Ryan would NEVER forget this
wonderful opportunity. Before we left for another classroom, Ms. Hartig, the general education teacher, mentioned how proud he had done remarkable well in her class. He adored her very much!

The last classroom we visited was his Special Education classes. He only is there for an hour of each day. Mrs. Jacobson also had incredible classroom theme: "Underwater Sea Animals." She had so many blue cellophane to make it looks like water waves. Another impressive was making each student's body with a swimming mask on the top of the ceiling. Unfortunately, Ryan's was not on the top of the ceiling because he is mostly involved in mainstream classes. The only positive comment from her was, " I can't wait to tell you at the transition meeting on how well he is doing all of his classes on June 17th." (So look out for my post on the night of 17th.)

I would say I was so glad I came to the Open House for three reasons: to support my son's, collected little information about Ryan's update work performances, and lastly stealing some of the ideas for my classroom.

Snap, Crackle and Pop !

What does it remind you of Snap, Crackle, and Pop!? If you had guess it is Rice Krispie, you are correct. Doesn't it sound too good to have this treat once in a while?

Out of blue, David decided to teach our sons baking Rice Krispie. Doesn't that making your mouth watering? It did to my two sons who were thrilled to have this kind of dessert. Both young chefs started out with enthusiastic.

Dylan started out melting the marshmallows. In fact, he was hoping he would be able to eat only marshmallows. We declined his wishes. He soon left after we had declined his wishes to eat only marshmallows. What an attitude he had! He preferred to make everything quick and easy.

Ryan was on the other hand. He persisted to go through the steps until the end of the treat.
Have you ever thought about providing this Rice Krispie as a birthday cake? I didn't until I did the cooking research. Frankly, I thought it was a perfect way for anyone who does not like a birthday cake. I am one of them. This will be for the next birthday party. Maybe I can make my own birthday cake. What additional flavor would you like to have it on your rice krispie?

Another thing we can do with the Rice Krispie is to collect all of the Kellogg's cereals for Science Research. For example, you can find out and see which treats would prove most compelling, popular and delicious. Isn't that clever idea to do this for as a Science Project?