The Brown's Buzz: May 2016

I have finally uploaded pictures from my camera and found all sorts of good ones...so the pictures will be from the last several months. In the meantime, here's the latest!

I think you all know, but I still want to share that I GOT A JOB! :) I'm so excited to be joining the Forest View team and teach kindergarten! Everyone I talk to has only wonderful things to say about the school and the principal. I think I have found a perfect fit! I went up last week and talked to my team for a bit and saw my classroom. It's HUGE! Since it's a newer school, they make the kindergarten classrooms bigger. It also has a bathroom in it, which is SO NICE. I was in a kindergarten classroom for a year at my old school and I loved having the bathroom right there...easy to monitor and no one has to leave the classroom!!! I've been on Pinterest finding all sorts of ideas for my classroom. I've decided to do a crayon theme and I can't wait to see it all come together! I find myself thinking about it a lot and I keep writing things down so I don't forget. :) I went in the basement to quickly look at my stuff and see what all I had. So much of it was ruined in the flood, but I'm thinking this might be a good thing. A chance to start over and get some new things. Plus, less stuff to move in! :) I won't be able to start working on my room for several weeks though so it gives me time to take my online class (bleh!) and get a few other things done.

School is officially out and my little Kai is now a 1st grader. Oh my! That sounds so weird and unbelievable! He can't possibly be ready for 1st grade, can he?!!?!? I'm having so much fun reading with him. I'm not doing a complete "reading group" lesson like I did teaching, but I am trying to help him progress with his reading. He is really into BOB books and does a great job with them. I just LOVE listening to him read. So fun and so proud of him! We have the 1st grade sight words to review and work on this summer. I would like him to know them all before he starts. The first 50 are from kindergarten so we've got a good start! ;) Both the boys will have "school time" each morning. Kai has been busy with baseball. He has practice once a week and has started playing games on the weekends. It's fun to watch them play and the little ones like it because they get lots of snacks. :) There's another family that we've become friends with this school year and they have two little ones too so we buddy up and have a good time together!

Grayson had his open house at preschool last week to meet new friends and play for a bit. He thought that meant he started school the next week. :( I'm NOT ready for him to be in school too!!!! But, he's ready, that's for sure! We have a few things we need to keep working on this summer to get him ready for school. He's still working on writing his name...it is long. Sorry, buddy. We did find out that he will be in the morning session, thank goodness! Now, he can come home and nap with the girls. His school is on the way to my school so there may be a few days where I can drop him off, which will be fun! It will probably only be on inservice days though because his school is about 10 minutes from mine and doors don't open until 7:45 at his school and I have to be at work by 8:00. We'll see. We've started potty training at night with Grayson and he's doing great! I think he just wasn't ready to do this last time we tried. Two down, two to go!

Speaking of potty training, Leela keeps talking about it so I think we will try it this summer and see what she does. That would be AWESOME if she was ready to! She wants to be like the boys with everything!!! Leela still loves being my helper with Amelia. She loves to lay next to her and talk to her. It's so cute! I think Amelia is finally getting used to her and doesn't flinch every time Leela comes by! Ha! ;)

Amelia is still a great baby! She's already 3 months and loves her paci! She's also rolled over several times from back to tummy. Naps are all over the place and sometimes she sleeps for a few hours and sometimes it's just 40 minutes. She's still doing pretty well at night..sleeping from 8:30/9 to 4/4:30 in the morning. She eats and usually sleeps until 7/7:30ish after that. Getting a little nervous as we approach the 4 month mark...that's when Leela's acid reflux kicked in BIG time...really hoping Amelia skips out on this!!!!

June will be busy for us. The boys are in Vacation Bible School and have swim lessons for a couple weeks. We are starting up our neighborhood storytime again too. I'm starting it next week and doing a camping theme. We will read a few books and then I have some activities planned. It's been fun looking for things online to do. I hope the kids like it. We will have a bigger group this year-around 13 kids!!!

Well, that's about all. Enjoy the pics! :)