crazy hair day!

 joey got the kids in the spirit for crazy hair day! 

malloy LOVED her hair!!! she said people at school kept asking her what planet she was from!

rex stayed home again because his nose wouldn't stop running and he still wasn't feeling 100%. there were a lot of video games played and tv watched! hopefully he got the rest he needed.


malloy has been doing a lot of big math problems with neal for fun. tonight she was trying to show me how she does it. she was having trouble adding 500+500 and we weren't understanding each other. i was short on patience because rex was exhausted and cranky, as was malloy a bit, and they were on each other's nerves. i told her i learned math a completely different way and it was difficult for me to explain it to her so that she could understand it, she wanted to see how i did math. when i showed her she said, "wow, that looks much easier!" ummm, yeah. i told her that when i learned, i just had to know that 9+8=17. we needed to have those facts memorized and that if i didn't remember i'd just use my fingers. tears started streaming down her face she said "i'm sorry, i know i'm just tired but it makes me really sad that you had to use your fingers to count!" talk about sensitive!!!