Preschool Field Trip

Our little preschool group went to a garden today for a field trip.  I thought I would post a bunch of pictures from today for the other mothers to look at.  I won't put down to many details or names since our blog is public.  It was a lot of fun and at the end the children were even able to plant their own basil plant.  Thanks Emily for finding such a great activity for the kids!

Identifying different plants

Inside the gourd house

Shaking a dried gourd

I love this boy!

Don't pick the plants!  Where is his mother?!

Tasting spinach.

He didn't trust the cantaloupe.

He wasn't interested in the plants.

It's a carrot.

A little sunshine to help plants grow!

Feeding the fish.

Trying to get our waxy leaves to stay wet.

Planting basil.

Did I mention that I love this kid!

I don't think even one of them is look at the camera.

The whole group moms, babies and preschoolers!

Riverfest

I don't have many pictures as I wished I did.  I forgot the camera card for the first day of festivities.  Sigh.  Friday night we went to the blow up carnival.  It was a lot of fun, besides the fact that it was freezing!  They had a bunch of blow up slides and bounce houses for free.  I love free!  For dinner that night we ate corn dogs and french fries. Yum!  The next morning was the parade.  The parade was the only thing I did document.  It was kind of a sad and short parade, but the kids still ended up with a TON of candy.  So they were happy.

See how happy this little girl is!

The Red X float.  Made us laugh a little bit. (for those of you unfamiliar with Red X it is a grocery store in town that mostly sells liquor)

Look my husband is being social! He looks a little short in between Ryan and James.

Don't you just love Jacks jacket?  I found that little beauty at the thrift store for a buck!  He thinks it is the coolest.

This is our beloved story time liberian Ms. Kathryn.  Jack was so happy to see her.  Actually it threw him off to see her in the parade.  I don't think he ever considered the fact that she doesn't live at the library!

Here he is turning back to tell me who he just saw.

Look mom there she is!

For a kid who never sits still she stayed in her seat almost the whole time.

This is just a weird picture I think she is in the air.  Jumping to get some candy I guess.

Lemonade

Kaitlynn and her friend MacKenzie wanted to have a lemonade stand.  So we had one.  I had a bunch of pennies and handed them out to the neighbor kids so they could by the lemonade.  It was pretty cute to watch them pretend to be big.

Sampling the goods.

They didn't like Olivia trying to steal their lemonade so I turned on the hose to distract her from the big kids game.

In the end they were all distracted.

More Olivia and Olivia shots

This is all that was left of the lemonade stand.

Last week of August

My favorite view.  Nothing better than walking downstairs to our creepy unfinished basement and seeing this perfect sight.  Jack on top of the couch, intently watching a movie. Olivia sneaking into the popcorn. And Kaitlynn with daddy arm wrestling.  I love them all.

I gave Olivia a chocolate cookie.

Olivia and Olivia playing together.  These two always squeal with delight whenever they see one another.

They even share! Sometimes...

BFF.

 I put this picture in because this is what happens when the real daddy is always studying or at work.  The surrogate daddies have to fix the bike.  Only a year and a half left then Ryan can be back on bike duty.