Random Thoughts

1. Alabama Word of the Day:
"They better get theirselves warmed up."
Todd truly heard one of his teachers say that today.


2. Yesterday I took my seventeen kindergarteners to the bathroom after lunch. There was a wild ruckus in the boys' room. I heard them shouting and saying it smelled really bad in there. One of the boys was descriptive enough to say that it smelled like crap. The boys came out, one and two at a time, excitedly telling me, "It smells like crap in there!" It was kind of funny that they all wanted to tell me.

But then there was Stuart*. Apparently he's never heard the word "crap" before. His sweet little mind made a connection with the closest thing he knew about. He came out of the bathroom holding his nose, and told me, "It smells like a dead crab in there!" I laughed so loud!


3. These kids have a one-hour nap every day at school. During naptime, I've been pulling kids one at a time to come make a snowman craft for Christmas. After nap, they were all talking about their snowmen and were really excited about them. Brittany* was asleep the whole time and hadn't made one, hadn't even seen one. I guess she was really confused about the whole snowman thing. Anyway, she asked me,

"Why is the snow trying to mess with us?"

Where do they come up with these things? She sounded ready to get into a gangsta fight or something. Seriously. . .

*Names have been changed.