An Interview with Emma and Tripp.

How old is your mom?

T- 15
E - 34

When did your mom and dad get married?
T - June 5, 2006
E - 97

Who is the favorite child?
T- me
E - Emma

Who is your mom's boyfriend?
T- Peyton Manning
E - Dad

Who is your mom's mom?
T - Grandma Sadler
E - Granny

Who is your dad's mom?
T - Grandma Sadler
E - Grandma

What does your mom do all day?
T-Work.
E - She works at the church.

What makes your mom happy?
T- Cleaning your room.
E - giving her a hug and a kiss

What makes your mom sad?
T- Not cleaning your room.
E -when she says no and you ask somebody else.

If you could tell your mom anything, what would you tell her?
T- I love her and I would do anything if she would let me spend the night with Grandma.
E - That I love her very, very much.

What do you love about Grandma -
T - I love her very much because she lets me spend the night with her.
E - She is so much fun.

What does Grandma do that is fun?
T - Walking Harley. But Harley ran away, so now she can't.
E - She gets to cuddle me and I get to spend time with her.

Anything else?
E - Thank you for interviewing me. Can we do it again after I read you a book?
T - Where did you put the remote?

School Updates.

So, today was the first day of my student teaching experience.

I loved it!

I loved 2nd graders! My host teacher was kind- she threw me right out to the wolves - and even though it scared me, I was OK. After I did a Read Aloud, I looked up, and they were all staring at me. A little boy in the front row asked, "Will you read us another book?"

I had been worried about what I would remember about the last several months of class. When I was in my 2nd grade room, I kept having flashbacks... for example, when I was listening to the host teacher teach, I had flashbacks of text-to-world. And when I was working with the kids on a spelling lesson, I got an extra book out - because I would not ask them to do something I would not do myself.

Aah!

So, anyways, this afternoon I had to meet with my new advisor at Tech. This man is a professor who teaches my next block set of education classes. Guess what he said! Guess WHAT HE SAID!

Did you guess????

First thing, He said," You need to go ahead and fill out your application for graduation."

Aah!

I almost cried!

Phone Calls.

Last night - about 10:30'ish - Tripper calls his Grandma and sugar coats his voice.

T - Hello Grandma...
G- Hiiiii Tripp.....
T- Grandma, can I tell you something?
G- Yes, Tripp?
T- I love you.....
G- I love you too, Tripp....
T-Can I come spend the night with you?
G-Yes, Tripp....

At that point, Tripp turns to his daddy, and goes, "Ha HAAAAAA!"

And just like that, she was suckered into The Tripper Sweet Talk.

From there, the kid runs around the house with a Wal-Mart bag, gathering clothes. So, he came and told me what he was doing, and as he was talking, the joy was all over his face. He was so animated that his eyebrows raised by themselves, one by one, while he was showing me who the boss was in this house.

Now, Grandma lives two houses down from us. This is fabulous because 1. When the kids want to see her at 10:30 at night, I go outside my back door, she goes to her side door, we both turn lights on, and wave! 2. I love the fact that my children have a great set of grandparents who spend time with them- the more people who love you, the better off you are, right? 3. It is just really fun!

I made Tripper do a repeat phone call, complete with his dialing the numbers himself. (Yey! He knows his numbers!) I listened to the whole sweet conversation again. Then I talked to her. Then, I took that sweet little boy to the back door and watched him walk to His Grandma, with Emma's princess sword in hand - for light and protection. And he had a good night.