I am trying to start tackling organizational projects at home. I have a closet in our guest room I call my teaching closet. I basically have thrown everything in there for the past four years that I wanted to save, but didn't feel like going through. Now we are going to turn our guest room into a school room, so I thought it would be a good idea to clean it so things didn't fall on my children's heads when they tried to find things. I was amazing at the things I found. There was a key to the school I used to teach at (opps!) and even a whole file bin full of things from when I sold "At Home America" things. That was before we even lived in Oklahoma! Which means I moved all the way across the country with it! I can't wait to organize more things. This is the after picture by the way. I couldn't take a before picture because everything kept falling out when I opened the door.

This is part of our guest room we are turning into a school room. We took our most recent projects from the kitchen and Fashionista hung them up for us in here. I realize how controling I am sometimes. I was planning to take everything from the kitchen and do it all myself. Fashionista really wanted to move everything. I gave it and handed her the tape and let her do it all by herself. She did a great job!



These are some crosses we made today to help remember the real reason behind Easter. They turned out really pretty, but weren't really worth the trouble. Contact paper and 3 year olds don't really go well together. I loved to see how Fashionista took over and really helped her brother and sister. She even cleaned up everything when we were done.



This is a puzzle I borrowed from my school for the kids to play with this weekend. It turned out to be a really good multiage project. The two little ones put the picture part of the puzzle together and Fashionista matched the words to the pictures of Jesus' life. They want to keep it set up all weekend, but I'm not sure how that's going to work.

Fun with Princess Pout!

Princess sorted the colors of fruit loops and glued them on the rainbow shape. This took her a good 30 mins. but she was really concentrating. It helped that she got to eat the broken ones. We used cotton balls for the clouds. She looked so sweet when she said, "I did it!" Unfortunately, our infamous dog ate some of them while it was drying. Princess was so sad and said, "Callie ate my rainbow!" Good thing we were able to fix it up.





Our letter for this week is "A". We used alphabet stickers to cover the letter. You can see she is still snacking on the leftover rainbow!

Do you need to flush the toilet?

For those of you that don't know me, I teach 4 year old pre-k three mornings a week. Along with my own children's hilarious antics, these kids crack me up every day. I have one student, we'll call him "The Janitor", who is completely obsessed with toilets. Remember, he's 4! This strange obsession started about 3 months ago. He is one of only 3 boys in my class (I have 10 girls!) I started noticing during our potty breaks, he would wait until everyone was done then go into all the stalls and come back to report that everything was okay. I didn't really think about it for a few days, but when I noticed it happening more often, I mentioned it to his mom. That was an interesting conversation . . .

"So, have you noticed anything different about your son lately? Does he seem to be interested in bathrooms?"

"Yes! Lately everytime we go out to eat, he has to go look at the bathroom. I'm not sure what's going on with him."

"I've noticed he likes to spend time in there checking things out. We'll watch him and see where this goes."

So, over the next 3 months, his fasination grew! Everyday he checks to see that everyone flushed and there is toilet paper for the next person to use. After Spring Break, he told us all about all the bathrooms he saw on his trip down south. He was very descriptive of the hotel bathroom and all the wonderful things he saw. He mentioned Six Flags and Sea World, but only to let us know about the dirty bathrooms.

On Monday, during our journal writing time, he drew a picture of a plugged up toilet. He told us a wonderfuly imaginative story about how it got plugged up, who came to fix it, and how it got fixed. He was having a great day because he had earlier found a toilet someone had forgotten to flush.

In a staff meeting this morning, our director was telling us she is finding unflushed toilets around the school and would like us to make sure when we leave for the day we make sure all the toilets are flushed. What a perfect job for my little janitor!

I'm not telling you this story to make fun of my wonderful little guy. Although, I do hope you get a chuckle from it. He is such an amazing little boy with so many talents. To me, I just look at him and think about how God gave us each our own passions. I have found mine is children who need some learnin' and lovin'. I try to pour out God's love through in this area of my life. What's your passion? God gave us all something to pursue and help in His work. I wish we could all be as passionate about our service as The Janitor is about toilets. Figure out what toilet God is asking you to check out and start flushing!

We've been working on Princess' cutting skills. She loves to cut and glue!

Princess Pout is learning to sort and name a few shapes. I don't have her glue them on so we can reuse this activity for more practice.

We made Easter Eggs out of coffee filters and markers. It looks really cool when they spray it and the colors all run together. Their favorite part was using the spray bottle themselves. Fashionista helped when she got home from school, but I didn't get any pics of her.

I made an uppercase/lower case letter recognition game for Superboy. Princess played too just matching colors.