My first week at school

Well, the first week at school has not been too bad. I officially start at 11:00, but I am usually there by 10:30. My first two periods are resource time, but since it is only the first week we aren't taking the kids out of their regular classes yet. So I have been using the time to read files and organize the stuff left by the other teacher in a way that makes sense to me. Sharon (our EA) and I have been working on the resource schedule, which is like...well, I can't even think of an appropriate simile to describe how hard that is. We have to co-ordinate when kids are taken out of their regular classes, but they can't miss this, and their mom doesn't want them to miss that, and these two can't come at the same time because they're doing different programs and...blah. Thankfully Sharon has lots of experience with this. At the end of the day I teach grade 3 and 4, which is going quite well, except I had forgotten how smart alec-y grade 4 boys are. Or at least they're seeing how far they can go with me. Which is not very far.
Connor has been going to Brieanne's this week and he has been having a great time. They have a 4(?) month old chocolate lab named Dixie and she is Connor's new friend. At first he was scared by her barking and would cry heart-wrenchingly, but I think he got over that quickly. Dave usually picks him up in the afternoon and I'm home by 4:30. It was so nice to see Connor waving to me from the front porch yesterday when I got home.

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Connor loves having a bath now, except for the hair washing part.  

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Connor had fun riding in the wagon for a few weeks until he figured out he could stand up in it. Well, that's still fun for him, but not fun for me because I have to keep stopping and making him sit down.  

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It's a bird! It's a plane!

Posted by Kate

If you read the other Wager blogs you would have seen that Superhero names were all the rage in the family about a week ago. Grant found a site that will make a superhero name for you, so we were generating them with abandon. (If you want to find the site you will have to check Grant's blog.) The Wagers are all "Reactors", except for Garrett, who had something else. I just wanted to make a note of some of the more memorable superheroes of my aquaintance:

My sister Kim: Kung Fu Smasher
Grandma and Grandpa Swanson: The Bionic Cat
My brother in law Chris: Cosmo the Immortal
My mom: Miracle Alligator

And the best superhero name ever, belonging to my sister Jillian....
Superhero music please.....

ARNOLD, THREE TIME WINNER ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT!

Now go and save the world.

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Connor and I would like to say...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE!

Except that Dave isn't really interested that it's his birthday. He is more interested in the fact that they are STARTING NEW MODEL TODAY. That means that Honda is now building a new version of the Civic, which they revamp every five years. So they have been doing a lot of training and moving jobs around. There should be lots of overtime in the next few months, as I;m sure there will be lots of downtime as they work out the glitches on the line. And lots more overtime when hordes of people start to buy this fabulous new car. So I guess Connor and I would also like to say...

HAPPY NEW MODEL, DAVE!

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