In the jungle...

...
The mighty Jungle
Cute little first graders sing some songs.
In the jungle
The mighty jungle
the sweet little lion mask goes crooked.
Aweeee...eeeee..eee.aweee ummm umm away!!!

Tonight the cutest little first/second grade event EVER!  Their very special own version of 'In The Jungle'.  Will was an 'animal' who sang in the chorus.  He sang and did sign language and surprised us with a marracas performance.  It was so sweet.  All these little kids racking their brains to remember words and hand motions and stay in sync.  It's the stuff that makes your heart melt and keeps kids young.  I love it!  I wish I could bottle it up and sprinkle it all over the room from time to time.

 It's very difficult to see Will in that picture up there but he's on the end in the middle in the blue shirt.

Here's what he looked like before the big performance. 

In other news, I am carrying the world's most active baby.  If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'd guess there were 12 children kicking me from the inside.  I don't mind it one bit though.  love it actually.  such a cool feeling to have another human in there.  WHAT!?!  how does that all work?  It still amazes me. 

And...I'm practicing manual mode on my camera.  Inspired by a few blogs I read and their adventures into manual land.  I tried my hand at adjusting the ISO (i have no idea what that stands for) last nigt with Addi and was in love with the shots.  oh the LIGHT!

 never mind the blurriness...pay attention to the light!

 Same day, just using auto function.  Crazy how that changes things.

Take Will to work day

Thursday was 'Take your Child to Work Day' - a very uncelebrated day in this area in my opinion!  Will has been talking about coming to school with me for the past year.  Last year, his friend Eli's birthday fell on exactly the same day and they had big plans for recess so he skipped out.  I lost to 15 minutes at recess and Eli. So on Thursday he got all ready and joined me for a day at high school.  

He wanted to make sure that he got to do the following: 

• work in the student store
• watch the kids pack up their bags and leave
• eat school lunch
• play the computer

 x, x, x, x.  All items complete!  Will played int he student store and got to take money from customers and hand out bread sticks with the big kids.  He got to jump inside the display case and write a 'For Sale' sign on the outside.  His starting asking price was $2 million and then fell to $5 dollars.  Still no takers.  I think a 7 year old was the best birth control i could offer hormone raging teens.  He watched students pack up their bags after every period and walk out the door and was a litte confused about where they went.  He got to sit in my big, comfy chair and play on the computer and he even bought enough fruit snacks and breadsticks to fee da teenager.  It was so fun and my own students were so nice to him.  I was a bit concerned as I overheard him taking dares from the older kids....I saw high school years flash before my eyes.  Trouble.  That's all i could think.  Plain ole trouble!