Sweet Compliments and Sweet Relief

We'll start with the sweet compliments:

-Today was "Dress up" day (I think I mentioned this in the last post) - but basically it was a day to dress up in your "fancy" clothes. I was wearing a black dress with red tights and sparkly shoes (more on those later). When one of the girls arrived she got my attention to tell me, "Miss Barnes, you look so beautiful!"

-Later in the day a girl (I honestly can't remember if it was the same girl or not) came to me and said, "Miss Barnes, I wish you were our teacher like all the time the whole year!" And I know they love their teacher and she's great, so this is high praise! :)

Now, the sweet relief comes in the form of the weekend! The rest of the day was a bit of a struggle. Wants-to-go-to-the-office girl actually did get to go to the office today! She fell off her chair and smacked the back of her head against the desk. Then she proceeded to wail at the top of her lungs for awhile. Eventually she calmed down enough (after I kept telling her to calm down and take a deep breath and such, and after I yelled at one of the boys for making fun of her.) Then I sent her to the office to get an ice pack. After that she recovered quickly, although was still a bugger for the remainder of the day. I'm tired of saying her name.

And then there were two boys who could not sit still, follow directions, quit making noises or pay attention without being CONSTANTLY told to. I am weary and am glad to have a break from them for a few days!

The rest of the kids were cute. The art project we did turned out cute too! (I choose it and prepped it all.) It was fun to get to plan something for a change. I hung them all up in the window for their teacher to see next week. (See photos.)

EDIT: I forgot to tell you about the shoes! So I was wearing these cute black shoes with sparkly silver things all over the toes, and invariably, every time we sat at the carpet the kid who was sitting closest to my feet would start petting my shoes. Sometimes just once and then they'd look up sheepishly at me. Other times they'd just pet them over and over again and basically ignore me. Little kids aways notice my shoes. :)