I thought I'd blog a bit this morning since I have the time and energy. 

Sweet little Alexandra!

Alvarez--sweet when he wants to be

The morning has been slow and relaxing.  I did about an hour with the toddlers (they are no longer babies!).  There are five of them, and in a couple of years, they are going to be hell on wheels!  Right now they are manageable because they're little; give 'em a couple of years, and it will be hard to keep them in line.  But, right now I keep enjoying them, even when I have to discipline them--I give 'em a swift swat on the butt (no kneeling for me!).  They don't like it much, and two of them (Christine and Alvarez) have even told me "Kite mwen!" = "Leave me alone!").  That doesn't fly too well with me.

Moise

Found these in the depot--they clean up well!

Once the toddlers were done, I went back to the school, grabbed Oskar, and worked with him for about 30 minutes.  Then came Christine for 30 minutes.  The school had a short break then, so I brought Jephte and Lawrence out front so that they could play with the balance bike.

Kendina

Lawrence figuring out the balance bike

I looked for the balance bike last night, but Gertrude had had it put away in the depot.  I'm not sure what the deal is with always locking things away so that kids can't play with stuff!  I understand that there's a lot of wear and tear on things here when so many kids are playing with just 1-2 of any one thing.  But, if the nannies or other adult supervised, then it wouldn't be such an issue!  I'm just a visitor, but I really don't get it.  Chedner does the same thing!  Every day this week I've taken over games to play with the kids, but then they get locked up in his office so that the kids can't play with them again and I can't play with them again with the kids because Chedner often isn't there when I visit.  I'm going to take him a big tub so that the toys can be stored in that in the nanny's room.  Maybe then we can play with something two days in a row!

When I go visit tonight, I'll take the tub with me--see what happens!