teacher stuff

I had a preschool teacher workshop to
attend today in Birmingham, and while I was there, Dennis attended his first Methodist Men's meeting (it was also David's first). I hear he was fairly well behaved, thank goodness. I'm certain he was the youngest Methodist Man present!

After his early afternoon with Gran and Pop, I picked him up and he was asleep before we ever got home. He might have slept on through the night if I had let him, but I didn't. We spent the evening painting pictures and having another Important Staff Meeting, this one taking place in our library and involving the USA map and his brand new pointer (he was mapping routes from Alabama to "forest fires in Canada that we need to go put out"). We ended the meeting with the reading of The Great Muppet Caper, a book that we learned was a gift to me from Uncle Denny in 1981 (thanks to the inscription in the front cover--awesome!). Oh, and then we had some physical training. This means that Dennis and I jumped around doing random martial arts poses (and noises) and faux-attacks on each other. And then we danced ourselves silly until just before David arrived home. It is so disgustingly late and Dennis is still wide awake after 11 pm (chattering loudly in his bed), and I wonder if I learned anything at all in the workshop I went to this morning (section 1: kids need SLEEP for proper brain development)! Note to self: MUST institute a real bedtime, effective immediately!! Though, I admit, we sure did have fun together tonight!