A day with small human beings.

Today was one of those days where I felt like I just laughed through each class. Maybe it's because it is Friday, or maybe it is because small human beings are SO funny. Sometimes I wish I could just put them in my pocket and bring them home. Because it is constant entertainment being around them. Here are some quotes I want to remember (from today, and the past few weeks.) Enjoy :)

*Preschool Boy: "Miss Sarah, come here. I have a secret to tell you." (He then grabs my head and pulls it super close to him so he can whisper in my ear.) I want to be bored and take a nap with you."

Now, out of context that sounds super dirty. ha. Obviously he didn't mean it like that! It is kind of a running joke in his class that being bored is fun. But I laughed so hard after he said that, so he starts laughing, thinking what he said is super hilarious. Which made me laugh harder! Oh, it is never ending with that boy.

*Boy: "Miss Sarah, now that we know the primary colors, when will we learn the nursery colors?"

*Girl: (Pointing at a picture of the Mona Lisa) "Miss Sarah, that is a beautiful picture of you." Thanks da Vinci for capturing my beauty so well ;)

*Girl: "Miss Sarah, you have paint all over your apron. Will you please clean it before I see you next time?"

*During pick up one day, the children were playing with these little counting bears.
Boy #1: "How about I be the God over your bears."
Boy #2 does not respond for about 10 seconds.
Boy #1 repeats, a lot louder: "How about I be the God over your bears!"
Boy #2, with a super annoyed look on his face: "Ok, that's fine, but not until after I leave."

*I was explaining the art we were doing that day in class.
Boy: "Oh! I remember this. I did it before when I was a kid." (He is 3.)
Girl gives him a dirty look and says, "You are still a kid."

*Girl: "Miss Sarah! I had pink eye!"
Me: "Oh, I have blue eyes."
Girl: "Wow! That sounds pretty bad."
(hah, I'm so mean messing with them when they totally don't get my jokes. But how else do you stay sane during long days?)

*This one did not happen in my classroom, but it makes me laugh so hard! Warning: this is slightly inappropriate...
Teacher: "Get your hands out of your pants!"
Boy: "But something is just getting big down there!"

*Teacher is walking child out to car during pick up.
Teacher: "I like your coat."
Boy: "Thanks, I just found it at school today."
haha! He just found a coat he liked, and decided to wear it home. This boy is so naive though, he really had no idea that was wrong.

*Me, talking to 3 year old girl: "How are you today?"
Girl: "Good. But not so good. My dad just told me that I didn't sleep good last night. And now I am just tired all day."

*This exchange happened between two girls who are the same age!
Girl #1 hands girl #2 a paper towel  to dry her hands, then pats her on the head and says in a baby voice, "Here you go little fella." I started laughing and said, "Did you just call her little fella?" Girl #1 says, "Yes, she is just the cutest little fella I ever had!"

*One of my coworkers is pregnant. A 3 year old girl that had just come from her class was telling me about how her tummy was getting bigger. She then says to me, "Miss Sarah, I just wish you would grow a baby in your tummy."

*Boy: "Miss Sarah, you have cute cheeks!"

*Girl: "Miss Sarah, you are invited to my birthday party! Here is how you get to my house. You just get on the freeway and drive for a while. Then turn, turn again. Go down the hill, pass the tree, around the corner, turn, and my house will be on the end. Now put that in your brain!"

*Girl: "I am thankful for God, Jesus, and the stuff he telled us to do."

*Boy: "I am thankful for a law, and schools."

*Girl: "The truest thing in the whole wide world is that Jesus loves us and we love him and he died for us and that he cares about us and we care about him and that's the truest thing in the whole wide world that can never ever be broken."

*Boy #1 is at the front of line. Boy #2 goes and cuts in front of him so he can be line leader. (At this point they have no idea I'm watching.) Boy #1 starts to protest. Boy #2 looks at him, shakes one finger in the air and says, "Uh uh. Don't. Say. Anything." Boy #2 was smart enough to know that if a teacher didn't find out, boy #1 wouldn't fight him for the line leader spot. Kids can be so conniving...

When Life's Worth Living, It's Worth Recording.

Right after Braden and I got married, KSL ran an article about a man named ShayCarl who posted daily videos of his family on youtube. They make their living off of these videos. Braden started watching, and he got me hooked. It has become our routine to watch these videos together in the evening. This family goes by the name of "The Shaytards". They first created nicknames for all their kids - Sontard, Princesstard, Babytard, Rocktard, and Brotard - to protect their privacy. So, that's where the name Shaytards comes from. Although everyone knows their real names now, the nicknames have stuck around.

A few weeks ago, Shay announced in their daily vlog that they would be doing a meet and greet in Utah. Braden and I were stoked! After following this family's life for a year, they have started to feel like our family. The meet up was at Shay's Uncle's corn maze in Garland, Utah. So, Braden and I drove two hours to meet this little family. (I know, you are probably thinking we are crazy.) Once we got to the corn maze, there was already a line forming to meet the Shaytards. We ended up waiting in line a little over an hour before it was our turn! It was driving me crazy, because we could hear their voices through the corn, but we had to wait as the line slowly moved up. (We were actually grateful at how slow the line was moving though, because it meant the Shaytards were really taking time to talk to each person who came.)

This was the first good glimpse we got of them through the corn!

While waiting in line, Shay's sister Carlie's son, Cooper, was running through the corn trying to scare people with this mask. When he jumped out at Braden and I, I said, "Hi Cooper!", and he threw his hands up in the air and said, "How did you even know it was me?!" It was cute!

When it was finally our turn, everyone in the family hugged Braden and I, asked us our names, and where we were from. Go Idaho! (They are from Pocatello.) I told them that we had started watching them right after we got married, and that it almost felt like they had been a part of our whole marriage. Shay laughed and said, "Well, that's creepy." He told us a story of another couple that had been brought together by the Shaytard vlogs, and we thanked them for their example in our lives. It still amazes me how sincere they were talking to us - especially after they had already been greeting people for an hour! We talked about their little baby, Daxton, (who we unfortunatley didn't get to meet - he was inside with Grandpa). Daxton and I share a birthday, and this all happened the weekend of our birthday. So the Shaytards wished me a happy birthday, which was pretty cool! :) Brock wasn't very happy that night, but you can see him in the back of our pictures. He was scared because some of the haunted corn maze people were starting to come out, and it was getting cold. I asked Brock for a high five, and he just glared at me. Poor little guy! His Uncle took him inside the house a few minutes after these pictures were taken.

Shay's Uncle took this picture for us. 

Colette is so small! I'm 5 '4, and I felt tall next to her! 

After the Shaytards, we went over to talk to Shay's sister, Carlie. She even put us in her vlog! That was pretty cool, because we didn't even ask. I told her we do her 'Carlie walk' all the time, and she said, "Would you do that for the vlog?" Fast forward to about 3:00, and forgive my awkwardness.

After Carlie, we went to talk to Shay's mom, Laurie. This was probably my favorite part of the whole night! First off, she looked at me and said, "How do I know you? You look so familiar!" I'm pretty sure I have never met her before, but that was cool! She talked about how when Shay was younger, they got kicked out of everywhere because he was noisy and always causing trouble. She talked about how nervous she was to fly to New York for the NYC Marathon that Shay and Carlie were running (which actually happened yesterday.) She works at middle school, so we talked about kids and our jobs a little bit. It was just strange to feel like I know everything about this woman's life (because of watching it on the vlogs), and yet this was the first time we met. But in that moment, I just wanted to be her best friend! I know that sounds cheesy, but she was so so easy to talk to, and so funny. Her laugh is just infectious! We spent about 15-20 minutes with her, and we only left because there was other people waiting to talk to her. The whole night just felt totally unreal. Seeing people in person you have been watching on a screen for so long is a wierd thing. I'm grateful we went, because it really was the best birthday present I could have asked for.