Tanners Work

It always amazes me what the kids come home with from school. Some of the things they do and some of the things they say! Here are a couple great pieces of Tanners:

On Friday, February the 4th, the school celebrated the 100th day. Tanners class did many different 100 activities, but they did a couple writing activities also, like if you had a $100 what would you buy? Tanners reply, "A baby horse." When I saw the following paper I cracked up...it is soooo Tanner! He had to finish the sentence, "I could eat 100 _______" his reply "STEAKS!" That is definitely Tanner, if he could chose he would eat steak all the time, he loves it!

I love how detailed Tanner is in is drawings! During morning work, Tanners class copies a couple sentences, but then on the back of the paper they can draw their own pictures. These are a couple of Tanners pictures he has drawn!

Awards Day

At the end of each nine weeks, the boys school hands out awards. Parents are sent invitations if their child is to receive one. I saw on the school calendar that the awards were coming up, but hadn't gotten an invitation so I figured we weren't getting one. Two days before the ceremony, both boys bring an invitation home.

Since Kindergarten doesn't give actual grades I thought, wow both boys are getting an award I need to go! Tanner received the "I" award last nine weeks and I kind of thought he might get the Star Student award this time, but I wasn't sure what Tyler would get (he is not the best student, but...?).

So, I am waiting through the ceremony, they hand out Perfect Attendance (both boys missed a day because of illness), "P", "R", "I", "D", "E" and no Bowers boys get called up...??? Ok, well I was thinking Tanner could get Star Student, but Tyler?

I was very happy when Tanner got Pride Star Citizen for Mrs. Geers class!!! He is a super good boy and his teacher noticed also!

Tyler never did get called during the assembly. Ms. Randolph said that they would be doing grade awards back in the classroom and I was welcome to come and watch. This is what Tyler was going to get. I am not going to lie, I was a little disappointed, I thought Tyler might be getting another award because of the invitation, but oh well! He did get the straight A's award, as much trouble as he is, he is very smart! I think he was pretty proud of himself and I know I am! Tanners class also gave out grade awards, which Tanner also got a straight A award!

The Kindergarten teachers count up all the mastered objectives and average them with the taught objectives to determine if students get A/B or straight A honor roll! Thomas and I have two very smart little boys and we couldn't be happier!

Dressing Up

The other night we were talking about cruise attire for our upcoming cruise and mom says, "I still have that dress you wore when you were a flower girl!" So she runs to go get it....this dress has been hanging in a closet for 28 years in a plastic bag. When mom comes back it looks like it has some stains on it, but mom says, "Lets wash it and see if they come out." After running through the washing machine the dress comes out looking almost like new. Its a size 4T so it should fit Tapanga! Lets try it on her!

Now, I think I need to stop here and mention that I don't have many to any clothes from my childhood and this is actually the first thing that Tapanga could wear that I did. Of course, Tapanga was in 7th heaven, after all it was a "princess" dress and she was all giddy with excitement!

I wore this dress for a cousins wedding in Gatlinburg back in the early 80's...check out the fashions back then!

As much fun as it was to play dress up with Tapanga, I don't think she will be wearing this dress anywhere in public! :)

The Snow We Were NOT Expecting!!!

The weather reports all weekend have talked about the 2 systems coming towards us in the coming week. Temperatures over the weekend were relatively high and so people were not as concerned with Mondays system because of the warmer ground temperatures. When the alarm went off Monday morning I did check the news to see if we were out for the day, just in case they decided to be cautious.


Everything looked normal and so we got ready for school and headed out. I kept an eye on the weather all morning, expecting the schools to dismiss early in anticipation of the coming system, but the call just wasn't coming!!! (I was frustrated) 8th grade had just sat down for lunch at 10:00 when the call finally came, that we would dismiss 2 hours early. It looked like this was a late call...the snow was already sticking!!!

Middle schools dismissed at 12:05, this is two hours early for us! I decided that I would go and get the boys from school, because the ground was looking awfully slick already and they wouldn't be getting off the bus till about 2:30 if I waited for them! I am so glad I decided to do this, the ground was so slick and I just couldn't imagine them on a big bus driving through this mess!

I should mention that during the morning news we were predicted to get about 1 inch of snow, by the time I left school we were predicted to get 3 to 5 inches!

Thomas got released early from work and he picked Tapanga up from daycare and we pulled into the driveway at about the same time. We already had about 2 inches of snow and the boys wanted to play in it sooooo bad! I told Thomas that the snow was a good wet snow, a good snowman snow and that he needed to build a snowman with them!

He went out and built one the deck! The kids had a great time playing in the snow!

I am very thankful I went and got the boys from school early, about 30 buses had trouble delivering students home in this unexpected snow. I don't believe Tanner and Tylers was one of these, but it made me feel so much better knowing they were safe with me at home instead of waiting for them to get off the bus! One inch turned to about 3.5 at our house!

Now the question is what will round two bring on Wednesday?

Super Bowl Fun

We went to Mom and KG's tonight for the Super Bowl and during half time Tyler started dancing. (If you listen closely you might here the Black Eyed Peas in the background.) I have to say coming from two non-dancing parents he's got a couple moves...well maybe! What he definitely has is an appetite, notice how he has to stop every now and again to get a few peanuts! Too funny! Sorry for the bad quality, but still good enough to get a little laugh!

As Tyler was getting ready for bed Tyler says, "I want to be TJ when I grow up!" Thomas replied, "A TJ? Do you mean a DJ?"

Oh, Gross!

Tonight we were suppose to go to a friends house, visit and maybe play a few games, but someone got sick and so we couldn't go. Instead, Thomas and I decided to go get some dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. It seems that wasn't such a good idea also. No, Tapanga came over to me after the dessert had been delivered and said, "My belly hurts." This was right before she started puking and puking and puking. Lets just say it was all over the place! I had it all over me, she had it all over her, and not to mention the floor!

Oh, my! I have never experienced this before. How embarrassing! I ran her into the bathroom where I stuck her in the empty stall, while I tried to wipe my hands. I needed to wipe the handle off from where I came in and I am struggling with the toilet paper, because they had a hand dryer and no paper towels!!! Which all of you know of wet hands and toilet paper go together! A lady in the next stall heard what was going on and started laughing. She says, "I am sorry, but I can't help it." She was so nice to say, "Hold on just a minute, I will go get you some towels." When she comes back she says, "They weren't happy about them, but here's a wet and dry one." Thank you so much!

The joys of motherhood! I guess it was a good thing that we didn't up going to anyone elses house even though it was rather embarrassing to be at this particular restaurant tonight!