My first lesson & Midget goes gigging

Well, my first official lesson as a student teacher was interrupted by a fire drill. The poor kids were out in the freshly mowed grass for 15 minutes smacking mosquitoes so much it looked like they were all dancing to the beat of some unknown music. Then there were the kids who stopped to wait in ant beds...sigh...needless to say, it took us about 10 minutes and lots of alcohol based GermX to get the kids to focus on the lesson and not the unbearable itchiness that was distracting their already uber-distractable selves. I did get through the lesson and felt it went well considering all that took place during it.

In other news, Midget has taken Gig 'Em to a whole new level. She has 'adopted,' per se, three little frogs which have taken up residence in the flower bed nearest the garage - underneath the big floodlight which illuminates the front walk (and half the neighborhood) where all the bugs fly around. She usually just 'herds' them with her nose to get them all in the same spot - in the flower bed if they've hopped over the bricks onto the sidewalk. For a reason unknown to me, she decided a few nights ago to pick one up in her mouth. I don't know if she intended to eat it, help it, or play with it, but regardless - the end result was that it peed in her mouth. Totally disgusting, but incredibly hilarious to watch her cough and sputter trying to get the pee-taste out of her mouth. It was like watching Donald Duck have a sneezing fit! I did brush her teeth and clean her face really well after we came inside (and she was furious about that!) and we didn't go back out the rest of the night. Needless to say, she has not made any further attempts to go gigging since the little froggy went wee wee wee all the way home.