Crazy Stories

While many people were off on MLK day, all the teachers and staff at my preschool had training. One of the suggestions during our literacy session was to get a cube with pockets, fill the pockets with pictures, and let the students create a story. I loved the idea, and I was excited we already had the cube, so I immediately sat down with magazines and cut out a bunch of random pictures. I throw the dice, and whatever picture it lands on, we make up a few sentences about that. I throw the dice again, and add that picture onto the story, and so on. We did one last week and one yesterday. I LOVED how they turned out!!

This is last weeks:

The Little Boy Had a Bad Day

(Picture 1: thermometer) The little boy got sick. He told his dad that he was sick. He stayed in his bedroom until he got better. The boy had to go to the doctor to get a shot. (Picture 2: bugs) There were bugs in the boy's tummy! The boy had eaten bugs and gotten sick. After the doctor, the boy had to go to the hospital. They looked through the boy's mouth and used a poker to get the bugs out. The boy went home and felt a lot better. (Picture 3: coffee) He drank some coffee and felt happy! He drank more coffee but spit it out! He didn't like the taste. (Picture 4: shells) There were shells in his coffee! He swallowed them, choked, and had to go back to the hospital. The boy had to have surgery! The doctors sewed him back up. The boy walked to the beach and saw a special shell. He threw the shell into the water, a crab threw it back at him, and pinched him on his tiny pinky toe. (Picture 5: iPhone) The boy ran away and called his mom and dad on his iPhone. The boy hides and the crab can't find him. The boy roared and scared the crab away. (Picture 6: bunny) He found a house on the beach with bunnies inside! The boy took all the bunnies back to his house. The boy got so comfy that he went to sleep.

Monday's story:

A Boy and Girl Got Married

(Picture 1: Tiffany engagement ring) A boy married a girl. The boy gave the girl the ring. The girl said thank you. They went out to eat. They went home and had cake. (Picture 2: STOP sign) They were driving a car and saw a STOP sign and stopped. When the light turned green, they went and crashed into a deer. They put a Band-Aid on the deer. (Picture 3: bowling) They went home, woke up, and went to see their best friends. All the friends went bowling, took a break for a little while, and went back to bowling. The boy knocked all the pins down! They played another game and knocked more of the pins down! (Picture 4: bus) They drove a bus to a rocket ship. They drove the rocket ship to outer space. The girl was scared because the rocket ship was shaking so they sat down in some seats. They flew back down to Earth. (Picture 5: toothbrush) They went home and brushed their teeth for night time. They kissed and went to bed. A tiger and a lion broke in the door! (Picture 6: farmer) They went to a farmer and got some vegetables for the animals. The animals ate it up, ran away, came back, and chased bunnies around the house. The farmer fed carrots to the bunnies and the boy and girl went to bed with the bunnies.

I was very proud of my prekinders. They came up with great ideas!!

Well, I'm never going hunting

I realized after our weekend in Harper that I really will never be able to hunt. I love animals too much to hurt them. Case in point: Saturday, Landon and I were driving around the back property in the Polaris and changing out all the SD cards from the game cameras (we think someone might be hunting on our land, so we put up game cameras to try and catch them). We were driving along the back fence and saw something moving under the fence. We stopped a ways away, thinking it was a pig (we were also trying to hunt them because they are ruining the property). Nope, not a pig...a porcupine. A huge porcupine. Actually, this was the first porcupine I've seen in real life so I have nothing to compare it to, but Landon said it was big.

This poor guy was caught in a snare trap. I don't really know about them, but I know that he had a wire wrapped around his waist and it was attached to the fence. He had scraped his back needles off while trying to get out of the trap. This, of course, made me really sad and I wanted to help it. I convinced Landon to go back and we would try to find wire cutters (long enough so we didn't get poked!) to cut the wire to get him out. My dad did not agree with this at all because he believes they are eating the bark off our young trees, which eventually will kill them. In the end, Landon went (by himself) back to the porcupine to end its life. Poor guy. Which is when I realized I will never be able to hunt because I love animals too much to kill them. 

This is also a catch-up post. I'm awful about blogging...I can never think of anything to blog about. So I will add some fun pictures that I've taken over the past few months!

Ellie from this weekend in Harper. On Thursday she had her teeth cleaned (thank goodness, her breath smells like death) and they have to knock them out to do it. So she has two awesome stripes on her front legs where the IVs were. She looks pretty ridiculous. We had gone for a walk around the property Saturday night and threw the ball for her a bunch. She had been inside most of the day and needed this crazy time. She ended up opening the cuts (pokes? spots?) where the IVs had been and was bleeding. We had to tape some gauze around both her legs. She just looked so pathetic and Landon started singing "in the arms of the angels..." 

 New Year's Eve in New Orleans at my grandma's house. She started outside in the backyard with the other dogs, but was freaking out when the fireworks started. We brought her inside to hang out in a bedroom with my aunt's two Cairn Terriers. Ellie decided she really liked their bed.

 Instead of a gift exchange with the cousins this year, we all decided we would rather just have a night to go and hang out and enjoy each other's company. Our favorite hang out spot in Metairie is Rock n Bowl. It's a bowling alley with a bar and live music on weekends. The band was great, the place was packed, and we had a blast hanging out, hoola hooping (yes, you read right), and bowling! I actually made a spare and a strike! We will definitely be making this a tradition.

Since we don't have any kids yet (don't get too excited, it will be a long time), 90% of the pictures on my phone are of my "kid": Ellie. We spent the 4 days before Christmas at Landon's parent's house in Marble Falls before heading out to Harper on Christmas Day to hang out with my family. Ellie decided to take a nap on Landon's bed and use his rolled-up blanket as a pillow. She's too damn cute.