Gabriella is 9 months old! She now has 7 teeth and FINALLY started crawling last week. She took her sweet time, but I can't complain because now she is into everything! She is almost sitting up, too. She can sit up alone for a few minutes if I put her in position but soon flops over. It's just a matter of time! She tried her first meat - Turkey rice dinner - a couple days ago and loved it! I guess she's no longer a vegetarian! LOL!



Isaac has another loose tooth. He is excited for the tooth fairy to visit him again! He will be 5 years old on Halloween. I still can't believe it! He is really enjoying pre-k and asks me lots of questions. Just a minute ago he came in from the bathroom and wanted to know why we have eyebrows!
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I started teaching my kids at school about the Medieval period of music history. They seemed really interested, more than I expected. The first graders are especially interesting. One boy told me that we come from apes Another boy raised his hand and told me that Obama doesn't believe in the Bible or go to church. Interesting. I don't know where these kids come up with some of these things, especially at such random times. We were talking about how the church ran things and music started from the Gregorian chant. I guess that somehow made him remember what he thinks he knows.

Check out the new sea creature book we got!!!

First of all grrrrrrrrrrrr..... I hate it when Internet Explorer unexpectedly shuts down. I was right in the middle of posting.

Today one of my 4th grade students told me he loved me being his music teacher better than the last one because she was always so tired. Lol! I told him I am always tired, too. He said I always seemed to have so much energy! Ha! All I can say is that teachers should get Academy Awards for their performance! If he even knew how tired I am every day he would change his mind. I guess it's good that it doesn't show.

I DO try to have high energy in class, even when I don't feel like I do. It is music class, after all! Honestly, once I start teaching any aliment seems to go away and the time goes by really fast!

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My sweet baby Gabi turned 8 months old a couple weeks ago and I am just now getting around to posting a picture. She is getting so big! I just can't believe how fast time flies. Her hair is really starting to grow and it appears to have a bit of wave in it. He rolls all over the place and scoots, but she won't crawl. She gets around, though! She isn't sitting up, either! I guess she's taking her sweet time. She IS getting up on one arm now and seems to have the desire to sit up so I expect any day now I'll walk in the room and she'll be sitting straight up. She is really tall and her legs already go way over her end of her seat. I guess it's time to get a bigger car seat. She gets so excited to seem me when I pick her up. She kicks her legs about a million miles an hour! :) I LOVE IT!

Who's Looking At Me?

As I was walking to my car today after school I felt all of these eyes on me. They were wooden eyes! Most of these little wooden faces were smiling at me, but I did find an occasional frowny face. We have had terrible rain for a couple days. The rain on the wood formed perfect, haunting outlines of their faces. The photographer in me went searching for my camera. Of course I didn't have anything except my cell phone so the quality isn't the best.

Moral of the story...never leave home without your camera and you never know who is watching you!

MY BABY IS ALL GROWN UP!!!

I got some news today from Lemuel who called me on my way home from school.

ISAAC LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH!!!!

My first reaction was...."WHAT?". I got worried because he seems a little young to lose a tooth. I thought maybe he had another accident. Lemuel reassured me that it fell out. In fact it was just gone! It may have disappeared when he was eating his happy meal after school or it could have happened some other time...I guess we'll never know since the tooth is gone and gone for good. (We all looked for it!) My next thought was, "I'm not going to cry." I just can't believe my sweet baby boy has lost a tooth already! He's been in pre-k for only 2 weeks and he already seems so much older! Where does the time go?

I thought 4 years old was a little young to lose a tooth. I read on the Internet tonight that most kids lose their first tooth at age 6-7, but yes, you can lose your tooth as early as 4 years old. In fact, the younger a child is to get his teeth as a baby, the younger he will be to lose those baby teeth. Isaac got his first tooth around 3 months old, which was early (just like me), so this makes sense. My mom even told me that I lost my first tooth when I was 5, so I guess like mother, like son!

He is super excited to see what the tooth fairy will bring him tonight. We just need to write her a note to explain where the tooth has gone! :)