Monday, June 1, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Oh, the joys...
of living in a small town. Jordan's students know where we live so this is what we woke up to on Saturday morning
At first when I walked outside I could only see those little papers in the ground, and I thought, how cute!, the students love Jordan! Then I saw the toilet paper and my mouth dropped open. Jaxon had a blast pulling the sticks from the ground and putting them in his dirt pile. I ran and got Jordan and told him to see the surprise in the front yard. He came out, looked a little bit, and went back to bed.(He was sick) Some of the notes were cute and said,"We love your Mr. Keith." Others said things like, "I bet it stinks you have to clean this up!." Jaxon got most of the sticks and I started on the tp. It wasn't that bad because the girls who did it (they fessed up on Facebook) got extra strong, quality tp so that stuff was easy to pull out of the trees and bushes. I was done cleaning in a wink.
Tomorrow is the last day of school and I couldn't be happier. It's been so nice to have Jordan back and not so focused on school or concerts. He's also done with private lessons for the summer so our house has been less crazy. Today we found out he passed his last class with flying colors in order to get his teaching certificate. He's worked so hard on teaching AND taking classes these last two years; I'm so proud of him.
During the last couple of months I've just been supporting Jordan and taking care of my boys. We've been having a speech therapist come for a few months so I've been working with Jaxon to try to learn and say more words. He's improved a lot. He's finally saying two or three words together like, "Where is it?, There it is! Where's shoes?" Since the therapist has come I've realized how hard it can be to learn words and then actually say them. I've also realized that's why Jaxon has been extra hard this past year and a half because he gets frustrated that he can't communicate with me and I with him. We are finally getting some where and our therapist is positive that he will catch up just fine. We've been a lot happier now that he understands more words and says more.
Kodee is as cute as ever! He's sitting up now. Not crawling yet. His head is just too heavy. We're coming to a tough spot here though because he's almost outgrown the bassinet, but we're so afraid to put him in his real crib in Jaxon's room. We're afraid they'll wake each other up. If one is asleep the other is not and cries and wakes the sleeping one up. One night we put Kodee in his bed after Jaxon was asleep and Kodee had been asleep a while. It worked fine, but I couldn't sleep just waiting for one of the boys to wake up. The biggest reason of all is Jaxon likes to climb in Kodee's crib and play. He also likes to smother the baby with pillows on our bed. We're just so afraid of Jaxon smothering Kodee without us knowing it. Does anybody have advice? How did you put two small children in a room at once?
Having two boys has been an adjustment, but it's been so amazing. I have really enjoyed playing with my boys for the last couple of months. Jaxon does adore Kodee even though he does the actions said above. I can tell he can't wait when Kodee will be able to move around and play with him more. So, in between Jaxon's obsession with,"CHOO CHOO'S" and Kodee's smiles there are good times happening in our house.
Last night Grandma Keith took the boys for the evening so Jordan and I could have a quiet, relaxing house. When she came back the boys came up in these cute, huge PJ shirts with the biggest smiles on their faces. I love really big shirts for little children. I think it's so cute! It was amazing I got both boys to look and smile at the same time this morning.
I also think, they look nothing alike. Pretty funny!
At first when I walked outside I could only see those little papers in the ground, and I thought, how cute!, the students love Jordan! Then I saw the toilet paper and my mouth dropped open. Jaxon had a blast pulling the sticks from the ground and putting them in his dirt pile. I ran and got Jordan and told him to see the surprise in the front yard. He came out, looked a little bit, and went back to bed.(He was sick) Some of the notes were cute and said,"We love your Mr. Keith." Others said things like, "I bet it stinks you have to clean this up!." Jaxon got most of the sticks and I started on the tp. It wasn't that bad because the girls who did it (they fessed up on Facebook) got extra strong, quality tp so that stuff was easy to pull out of the trees and bushes. I was done cleaning in a wink.
Tomorrow is the last day of school and I couldn't be happier. It's been so nice to have Jordan back and not so focused on school or concerts. He's also done with private lessons for the summer so our house has been less crazy. Today we found out he passed his last class with flying colors in order to get his teaching certificate. He's worked so hard on teaching AND taking classes these last two years; I'm so proud of him.
During the last couple of months I've just been supporting Jordan and taking care of my boys. We've been having a speech therapist come for a few months so I've been working with Jaxon to try to learn and say more words. He's improved a lot. He's finally saying two or three words together like, "Where is it?, There it is! Where's shoes?" Since the therapist has come I've realized how hard it can be to learn words and then actually say them. I've also realized that's why Jaxon has been extra hard this past year and a half because he gets frustrated that he can't communicate with me and I with him. We are finally getting some where and our therapist is positive that he will catch up just fine. We've been a lot happier now that he understands more words and says more.
Kodee is as cute as ever! He's sitting up now. Not crawling yet. His head is just too heavy. We're coming to a tough spot here though because he's almost outgrown the bassinet, but we're so afraid to put him in his real crib in Jaxon's room. We're afraid they'll wake each other up. If one is asleep the other is not and cries and wakes the sleeping one up. One night we put Kodee in his bed after Jaxon was asleep and Kodee had been asleep a while. It worked fine, but I couldn't sleep just waiting for one of the boys to wake up. The biggest reason of all is Jaxon likes to climb in Kodee's crib and play. He also likes to smother the baby with pillows on our bed. We're just so afraid of Jaxon smothering Kodee without us knowing it. Does anybody have advice? How did you put two small children in a room at once?
Having two boys has been an adjustment, but it's been so amazing. I have really enjoyed playing with my boys for the last couple of months. Jaxon does adore Kodee even though he does the actions said above. I can tell he can't wait when Kodee will be able to move around and play with him more. So, in between Jaxon's obsession with,"CHOO CHOO'S" and Kodee's smiles there are good times happening in our house.
Last night Grandma Keith took the boys for the evening so Jordan and I could have a quiet, relaxing house. When she came back the boys came up in these cute, huge PJ shirts with the biggest smiles on their faces. I love really big shirts for little children. I think it's so cute! It was amazing I got both boys to look and smile at the same time this morning.
I also think, they look nothing alike. Pretty funny!
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Middle School Final Concert
I've finally finished all my concerts! All that's coming up now are graduations-not much to stress out about that. But boy was this week a trip. I feel like my brain was reeling 100 mph for the whole week. I kept thinking about every possible thing that could go wrong.
Both shows were great, and reminded me why I love what I do. Having the students happy with their shows and love performing is what it's all about.
This was our final Middle School concert. The choir did some fun tunes: Dance Evolution, Broken Road, and a Motown Medley.
The choir also got together and surprised me with a "#1 Music Teacher" Trophy they had engraved with my name. They also bought me some flowers and presented them to me after they performed. It was such a cool surprise!!! Love those kids!
The Musical Theater group did a version of "Footloose" mixed with a Medieval themed play called "Beauty is a Beast." It was hilarious and the songs worked perfectly with it. The kids loved dressing up 80's! The things I pull out of my head. . .where do I get these crazy ideas??
Footloose Pose
Our crazy Fairy God Mothers. LOVED the hair!
Both shows were great, and reminded me why I love what I do. Having the students happy with their shows and love performing is what it's all about.
This was our final Middle School concert. The choir did some fun tunes: Dance Evolution, Broken Road, and a Motown Medley.
The choir also got together and surprised me with a "#1 Music Teacher" Trophy they had engraved with my name. They also bought me some flowers and presented them to me after they performed. It was such a cool surprise!!! Love those kids!
The Musical Theater group did a version of "Footloose" mixed with a Medieval themed play called "Beauty is a Beast." It was hilarious and the songs worked perfectly with it. The kids loved dressing up 80's! The things I pull out of my head. . .where do I get these crazy ideas??
Footloose Pose
Our crazy Fairy God Mothers. LOVED the hair!
End of Year Concert
The whole gang! Under the Sea pose.
The "If Only" Quartet: Triton, Ariel, Sebastian, and Eric.
My Mersisters and Flounder
Ursula and her eels
The director and his students. Love these kids!Taste of Sound Rocked! I was so proud of them getting this whole Little Mermaid production together. They worked hard, and the crowd loved it! It was a wonderful way to end the year!
My Girls Quartet- made me proud this year!
All-State Weekend
These are some of my favorite songs. Check out 1:33, you will be AMAZED!
All-State weekend was a blast. I was so happy to take my 4 all-staters. The songs were amazing and I had the wonderful opportunity of directing one of them in the warm up session, the first night the choir got together. It was incredible to be in front of 200 eager high school choir students who were so responsive to every little thing my hands did while conducting. I was pretty nervous, but after I did it, I knew that I'm in the right profession. There's nothing else like it in the world.
This is the song I got to conduct: I Thank You God.
They also did this song, Mise rei rei, and the director has exclusive rights to this song. Every time they sang this, I got chills!
The kids were great all weekend. I really didn't have much to worry about with them. They get along well and are good friends. Couldn't have asked for a better, first-time being the director, All-state experience.
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