Aaron now orders his eggs "light and fluffy" just like Prince Omelette in the Veggie Tales classic on sharing. This morning I was finally up early enough to make breakfast and served up scrambled eggs with bacon. Aaron was curious if I was an adult, if I was older than Mommy and if I was older than Daddy. His question de resistance came towards the end of that when he asked "Mary, are you bigger than a whale?"
This afternoon we went to the airport to meet the new puppy. An adorable, amazingly friendly little boxer arrived and went nuts licking everyone. While waiting Dave took Aaron and Jacob into the woods to distract them. As he emerged up a little valley he was only one foot shorter than the trees in the forest behind him. It looked like a camera angle trick you would see in a movie for them to demonstrate a character is a giant. Only it was real life and just really short trees.
4 days of substitute teaching has given me a renewed and new respect for teachers. Last week I replaced Dave at the local high school as Phys Ed teacher. Remembering how much I always loved Phys Ed I didn't think it could be too hard. Seriously, playing games for 80 minutes a day? Awesome! However, getting the kids attention, convincing them to do the activity, tailoring it to a range of interests and abilities is very hard. Not to mention that playing sports for hours a day is tiring! My muscles were sore by day two.
PS. Can you spot the purple flower?
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