Braden

This is my nephew Braden. He is my only nephew and only the 2nd grandchild so far. Isn't he just a doll. Melissa will be here next weekend we're hoping for a hair cut for this wild man who is not even 4 months old yet.


Hospital pic of the little guy!


About 1 month old on our family reunion road trip.


I love this one, wild hair, holding the monkey the binki half hanging out....such a cutie!

Big Boy Pants

So Keaton has always been very deliberate in his bowel movements even before he was a year old he'd stop whatever he was doing to take care of business and at about 18 months he took an interest in the toilet. So we got a little potty chair and started to remind him...but it wasn't really successful. Basically he tells me when he's about to go..."momma, i poop?" and I ask if he wants to go on the potty and sometimes he says no and runs away but other times he says YAY! He sits for a while but has never actually gone potty on the toilet.

When he turned 2 in August I bought some pull-ups that are supposed to feel cool when he wets, still no progress. In fact the other day he said he had to go, pulled down his "big boy pants" and sat on the potty (I was in the shower) and when he was done (or what he called done) got down flushed and walked away... I got out of the shower to a wet spot in the hallway.

Yesterday I bought some regular underwear, some people say that because they feel it right away and know they are wet and their legs are wet etc they don't want that to happen. So first he put them over his diaper. Then we sat on the toilet a while and then left the diaper off. I thought I'll just follow him around real close and if he starts to go I'll rush him to the toilet. Well about 10 minutes later he walked away for like one second and he says "uh oh, momma, poop" but what really happened is he peed all over the kitchen floor, big puddle. I took him to the potty but I was sure he had to be on empty.

It was almost bed time so the diaper went back on. A few minutes later he found another pair of underwear and so I told him to tell uncle Houston what he has... Keaton's response, "Look Houston, my hat."

I suppose "Boys will be boys!?!" but I didn't expect it this young. He is such a goof!

Also he's just recently started to pose for pictures, this is one of his picture smiles with the teeth showing and his head tilted.

Hot Teacher, Funny Kids

So I have a student, who is a bit different than most of the kids. She takes a while to explain things...for example she'll start with....well, you know I've been thinking about this in my head and well, you know, here is what I think the answer is...but it's said like one word at a time and very thoughtful like.

When she sneezes she will not let it rest until someone says bless you, and if I sneeze and she says bless you then she keeps saying it non-stop until I say thank you. Or if she picks something up that I dropped she reminds me over and over and tells me I need to say thank you.

So yesterday morning she was at the back of the line as we walked into the classroom and she kept calling me...Mrs. Semendoff...Mrs. Semendoff...Mrs. Semendoff several times but from a ways away, so finally I turned around and said What? Here is her histarical response....

Mrs. Semendoff...you look hot today, and not the sweaty kind.

Well if you really knew her you'd be on the ground laughing cuz she's just a little different and you never know what to expect. I'm just glad she hasn't yanked any permenent teeth out yet like when she was in 1st grade...just so she can get a tooth sticker (....sitting on the ground during calendar time...tied her shoe lace around it and yanked...big roots, blood everywhere)

Anyway, a little girl in my 2nd grade class think's I'm HOT! That should count for something...right?