Break Dancers

THIS is what my 3 year~olds were doing today {starting at about 0:16}:


Yeah, they're pretty amazing. I wish I had brought my camera to record the kids themselves! I taught them everything they know!

Actually, they were clearly imitating something they had seen before, but I can assure you it was not me or my poppin' n lockin' that they were emulating.

I had turned on some music so they could dance as I greased them up with sunscreen before we headed outside for a bit. No sooner had a kid bop~ish song come on than they gathered as this crowd did around individual kids, each taking a turn dancing in the middle. I didn't suggest or instruct this.

The dancer in the middle would flop on the floor, dance with choppy moves, bend down, and stick legs up in the air {trying to do FLIPS like these break dancers}, while the others looked on CHEERING, "Whoaa...yeah...huhoohh...yeah...wwhooo."

Maybe we don't need to have a bake sale, auction, and car wash to raise money for the center after all. How about a dance battle? ;-)

Do I Look Illegal?

¿Le parezco una ilegal?

"Show me your papers."

Planting Chums :: Four Fun Facts

This week I'm participating in the Planting Chums blog carnival/link~up hosted by Hannah at Aspire. This is the final week of this series; to participate, you have to come up with four fun facts about yourself. Below are the four facts I generated. My ClAiMs To FaMe {not really}. Ready??...FOURFUNFACTS~~Wooooo...

{1} I baked a layer for a REAL wedding cake when I was in 8th grade. {not the one pictured}

{2} My uncle's ex-wife plays the Judge Martha Sirkin on Law and Order. She also had a role in the 2008 movie Definitely, Maybe.


{3} The summer of 2005 {when I was 16}, I traveled with a school group in a motor coach covering over 9,000 miles in 27 days. We studied land sustainability issues, immigration, and native people groups...hiked the Grand Canyon, went rafting on the Colorado River, spun above Las Vegas on the Stratosphere, and snorkeled in the Florida Keys. {I don't have many pictures from this trip on my laptop; the one below was taken in Galveston, TX after my group won our "Don't Mess with Texas" American Idol spoof}



{4} I love metallics!!

Give me SPARKLE, give me shine! Be it clothing, jewelry, or make-up, I like the gLiTz, sequins, and "reflective metals". :-)

Saturday Evening Blog Post

I just linked up with The Saturday Evening Blog Post at Elizabeth Esther. According to this blog carnival's originator, The Saturday Evening Blog Post is "where bloggers gather on the first Saturday of each month to share their latest and greatest blog posts." I shared "I See What Your Hair is Saying" from March and "Betrayal" from April. I don't know if these are my best posts, but they are two that required a lot of discernment and reflection on my part. Hop on over to Elizabeth Esther if you'd like to participate!

Flawed. Crazy. Eccentric.

.: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's
better to be absolutely ridiculous....

than AbSoLuTeLy boring.

~Marilyn Monroe

Philly Ketchup

Before I had a chance to write about my second day in Philly, I was off on another trip! So here goes with my attempt at catching up...

I woke up my second day in Philly and walked the block and a half to the elementary school where I had my field experience last spring semester. This school keeps the classes together as they move from grade to grade, so I got to visit both classes I had helped last year. The "then" kindergartners are now first graders, and the "then" first graders are now second graders, of course. The class I had as kindergartners stampede rushed me at the classroom door upon my entry! I had missed them so much! I had to try hard not to cry when I saw all their faces again. They were tickled to see that I remembered their names; I was rather pleased myself, because they total over 40 children, and their names aren't exactly among the most common monikers. They really have some great names! I wish I could share them on here, but I need to keep their privacy.

Both classes had grown up so much. Even during my short visit I observed great improvement in their skills. I was no longer referred to as "Mrs. W-T" {for those of you who know my last name, you can see how they thought my last name sounds like the combo of these two letter names}, but rather they could pronounce my name just fine. Some of them even mentioned the bookmarks I had made for them before leaving last May. As I left, I was bombarded with, "Are you coming again on Monday? Are we going to see you soon?" So adorable. Maybe I'll see them again some day if I get to return to Philly as a REAL teacher. :-)

Here is the memorial {?} that our group left behind at the Messiah Philly campus. It's now hanging in the Caf. My hand prints are the purples ones on the far left. I don't think I actually got to see the finished product before this weekend. There's something that makes me happy about leaving my imprint behind!


Later in the evening I went to a party and then got to see my friend Jeremiah afterward, who I hadn't seen in over a year! Dora and Eriica were too busy being studious to make the trip. Maybe next time ;-)


So now, consider me officially caught up. And officially missing Philly.

Tiny Talk Tuesday

Looking at pictures of marine animals one day during circle time, I showed my two year~olds a photo of an octopus.

"What's this?"

A----- answered excitedly, "An applesauce!"

Join in the fun and share some Tiny Talk over at Mary's at Not Before 7.