Party in the USA

Kayla and I had a great time at the Miley concert with her best fried and her mom. I love Miley. I think she's fun, and her music makes me happy. I'm pretty sure that of the 4 of us, I was the most excited about the concert. Kayla is sitting here saying, "Not true!", but I still think I was.

We ate at California Pizza Kitchen before the concert. When we got there, we were excited at how great our seats were - 13th row on the floor. The girls had a hard time seeing at first, but we quickly learned how to position them standing in the chairs so they could see everything.

At one point, she came right over us on a zipline singing a song. Then we were extra happy with our seats. I was surprised at how entertaining it was. She was very creative and had a lot of special effects and extras.

I also just love watching Kayla and Aden together. They're such great friends to each other. They love and enjoy and care for each other. They are the living definition of the perfect friend and have been since they met in Kindergarten.

Best Class Ever

We weren't sure about me being Cal's teacher this year. It could have easily been a nightmare. We set up all these rules to prevent us from embarrassing each other. The main one was that once our ID's were on, we were just teacher and student. When the ID's came off in the afternoon, then we were just mother and son. Here's us on the first day of school.

Of course it had to be 4th period, the longest period of the day by 15 minutes. Luckily, the class was incredible. He was pleasantly surprised that I'm not as mean at school as I am at home, and that the class was kind of interesting. I was pleasantly surprised that he behaves better at school than he does at home, and he is a smart, inspiring student and a great leader in his class.

Here's one of the assignments he really got into. They were telling the class a folktale from their heritage. I tried to warn him to choose a different Czechoslovakian folktale, since his had a fairy princess for a main character, but he wanted to stick with it, so here he is telling the story to the class. My little fairy princess! :)

His best friends come from this class. I enjoyed them so much every day. There was only one day when I embarassed him. They were all hyper and wouldn't settle down, and we had something we had to get done that day, so I had to get mean and give some consequences. After school he told me I had been mean to them and he didn't like it. But it was only that one day out of the whole year, which tells what a great class they were. We took these pictures on the last day.

Best class ever!

Break a Leg!

I can't believe it's been a year since I added anything here. Reading back over my last few posts made me realize how valuable it is, though. For some reason, doing anything with pictures just completely drains my energy. I don't know why that is - but it is. So it makes sense that I haven't had the spare energy needed in a year - the last time school was out. It took me a full 3 weeks to decompress. What a lifesaver summer is!

Kayla performed in her first play today. She took an exploration academy class called "Goldilocks on Trial" where they learn and perform a play on stage and with costumes and props and everything. She enjoyed the whole process, wasn't freaked out to perform, and did an outstanding job! She was confident, loud, clear, animated, and very entertaining. She's a natural! I foresee many more plays in her future.

Her part was Detective Clorox. She testified against Goldilocks, acted out the flashbacks, and eventually got called out for eating too many donuts to be a reliable witness.

And her teacher was one of my teammates at school, so that was fun, too.

I'm so proud of myself for figuring out how to get these pictures from my phone to the computer to the blog. Whew!

Luckily, Kayla also took a photography class at exploration academy. Hopefully she can help me with my cameraphobia!