Ants always enjoy a good bowl of popcorn

One of my favorite things about teaching is working one on one with the students. I was reading with a boy named Tyler today. He can read pretty well but he reads so fast and skips a lot of words even if it doesn't make any sense to him. Today he was reading the grasshopper and ant fable and he got to the part where it talked about the ant working hard. The story described the ant dragging a large kernal of corn to store for winter. I could tell that Tyler didn't really know what a kernal was because of the way he said it. Afterwards I asked Tyler to describe to me what he had just read. When he got to the part about the ant working he said "so then the ant went and got himself a bowl of popcorn". I tried really hard not to laugh, I mean, what was this kid picturing in his mind? An ant propped up on a lazy boy with his bowl of popcorn? Tyler is one of my favorite kids, he just cracks me up.

Speaking of being a kid...sometimes I wonder about my good brother Dave. He sent me a text a little after 7 that said "Hey do you know of any good card games to play with 8 people"--since it was Monday night and he is the "dad" I knew that this must be for his FHE activity so I sent him a text back with a few options. He told me he didn't understand how to play a couple of them. I figured an explanation of a game would be a little too difficult through text so I decided to call him. He didn't answer his phone which I thought was a little weird since he was just texting me but then I got a text that said "can't talk right now, they're giving the lesson". I cracked up at this...oh Dave, oh Dave. He was asking me for a game to play after the lesson was finished...and I thought I was a procrastinator. Better yet, he was texting during the lesson! Hopefully he figured it out because I never heard from him again.

Oh, this is a picture of Aleni and I on halloween. This was the only candy we got. We went to a friend's house and watched a scary movie and when we got there we thought we'd take a shot in the dark and said "Trick or Treat" and Paul was kind enough to throw us a peanut butter cup each. We were so excited that we also made him take a picture of us...precious.