Daisy is One!

Wow, has it really been almost a year since I first got little Miss Daisy in front of the camera?  I'm sure Rhianna can hardly believe it either.  We took Daisy to the Arboretum (had to have a colorful background to match her colorful tutu!) for her one year pictures.  I think Rhianna and I were both a little nervous about how Daisy was going to perform considering it was about 45 minutes before her bedtime.  Thankfully, Daisy was in a wonderful mood and smiled and giggled the entire time.  It helped that Rhianna was over my shoulder doing all sorts of silly stuff.  It is clear just how much Daisy adores her momma (and looks like her too!).  This was altogether a completely great session.

Teacher Appreciation

Today was my student teacher's last day (sniff, sniff).  I had already been slowly collecting things to create a goody basket for her since you spend so much money your first year teaching just on things you need in your classroom.  On Monday after school, I got a great idea for a photo collage; something that would let her know just how much the students and I loved having her in our classroom.  I was fortunate enough to get all the pictures taken on Tuesday and Wednesday and I finished piecing the collage together about 9 PM last night which means I had to wait until this morning to pick it up from the photo lab.  Truthfully, I finished it around 6:30 last night but then when I picked up the first round of pictures, I saw that I had made a pretty big mistake with the collage and I essentially had to start over.  But thankfully, the collage turned out beautiful and I totally admit to tearing up a bit when I first took it out of the envelope.  And yeah, it totally made my student teacher cry.  And then all of my girls started crying (and did.not.stop).
I guess I should mention that every morning at the end of assembly, our principal has the students turn to someone and say "You are ____" and he gives them a complimentary word to use.  I made a list of the words he's used over the year and I let the kids pick a word that they wanted to use to describe my student teacher.  Anyway, I'm really pleased with how it turned out and I'm pretty sure I'll be doing this for all of my student teachers in the future.
Oh and I know it's a little hard to see all the words- this file is not resized for the website and I had to let Blogger shrink it (a LOT) in order for it to fit.