Where's My Mug?

I went to a restaurant tonight that had an impressive display of "career mugs" on sale. Essentially, they were coffee mugs that had a clever statement about a certain career printed on each one. For instance, the fisherman one said, "Old fishermen don't die, they just smell that way." Ew. Anyways, I perused through the career mugs to find that there was no such mug for gymnastics coaches, or any coach for that matter. However, flight attendants, teachers, golfers, plumbers, and even armchair sports fanatics all had clever little mugs.

I found myself a bit bitter, wondering why they'd left this passionate group of people out of the career mug display. I also wondered what the one titled "Coach" might say...here are some things I came up with:

• "Coaches aren't dreamers...they don't have time for sleep"
• "Wait a minute--you're telling me I get paid for this?"
• "This vein popping out in my forehead isn't just for decoration"
• "Coaches: Life's little reminder that your best is rarely good enough"
• "I'd scream at you, but I lost my voice yesterday when I was screaming at you"
• "Mediocrity is not in my vocabulary. I'm surprised I even know how to spell it since it doesn't exist."

So...what would your mug say?

"With Liberty and..."

Sydney told me that she knows the Pledge of Allegiance. She did a flawless job until she got to the very end and said, "with liberty and lettuce for all!" Corinna quickly corrected her, "It's liberty and justice for all."

Fiz was being her usual poky self the other day on bars. I sent her to share with another group, because things were a little crowded in the gym. I was half keeping one eye on her and noticed that she hadn't shown me anything in about 5 minutes. "Fiz, you need to bug me when you are ready to show, because I'll just assume you're being lazy...Have you even taken any turns?" I asked. "No," said Fiz with a little wry grin. I wanted to get mad, but her honesty just made me laugh.

Caitlin needed some help on her cast handstands the other day, but I was helping some other kids and told her that it would probably be a few minutes until I could spot her. She said, "That's okay, I'll just go waste time in the chalk." Ha!

Wynn (5 year old girl) came in the other day and said, "Ugh, I had such a dramatic weekend!" "What happened?" I inquired. "My brother had TWO people over to spend the night," she said.

My hair is naturally curly, but I'd straighted it out the other day before class. Louisa, one of my favorite curly-haired 4 year olds, came in and said, "What happened to your hair?" I told her I had straightened it. She said that she was going to ask Santa Clause for straight hair next hear. I tried to reassure her that curly hair was totally awesome, but I'm not sure she bought it...I'm going to make sure to wear my hair curly for her class next week.

One of my kindergym kids was doing her "free pass" on the trampoline yesterday and flew out like superwoman and sang, "I believe I can fly!" and then landed flat on her belly on the trampoline.

My kids have definitely kept me laughing this week and are teaching me never to underestimate the wit of small children :)