Big stuff...Little steps

Last night Flynne, our almost year old daughter, took SIX steps. Both her daddy & I were there to witness the beginning of a walking wild child. We just bought a new video camera and of course it hasn't been charged yet. Hopefully we can get a video tonight! I also decided at 5 o'clock yesterday to turn off the television and turn on Pandora radio to our "toddler radio" of course. Flynne loves listening to music and even babbles along to it, especially to the ABC song! I've discovered that she tends to play more & independently when there is music on in the background. She can be a tv head like her daddy & not want to take her eyes off of it if it's on! She was in rare form last night, dancing, wiggling, "head-banging", and being noisy!

On a teacher note, this week I'm benchmarking 8th graders for reading. Kind of boring, but fun to hear them read & good for them to know I don't just sit at my desk all day drinking Starbucks, like some of my coworkers believe! Anyway, one of the passages they have to read is about jellyfish & has the phrase "they have curly, long tentacles", yep, you guessed it, one of our more energetic, "tough guys" was reading to me and substituted "testicles" for "tentacles"! Ever have a moment where it is so inappropriate to laugh? I swear those are the times that are also the hardest to contain yourself. Poor kid, I finally got it together!