To the Fair!

Last Friday was H's class field trip to the Bastrop Fair.  He was so excited!  Not quite as excited as he was for his PreK field trips, but still very excited!  

His class getting organized and ready to go! 

They all had to wear red shirts for the day.

 Heading to the bus!

 Loaded up and ready to go!  They were so excited and happy!

 His class submitted some art for the exhibit, and this was H's. I'm sort of impressed by his zebra!

 Sponge art.

They watched a short presentation at the exhibit, and came home with some seeds and goodies.

And they got to ride rides!  This is what H had to say about the rides: "We got to scream!"

 Riding a motorcycle ride with his buddy Jake.

(Just a side note, last week we were driving home behind a motorcycle and C said "Mama, that motorcycle makes music." I asked him if he meant that it made noise, and he said "No, it makes music!"  I guess a motorcycle sound is music to C's ears!)

 Riding a car with Delilah 

(H said, "she has a same (he meant twin) brother and wears sparkly princess shoes.")

 I caught H just as he was waking up from his nap at school, 

sleeping with his knees up and legs crossed!  They all were happy and had fun, but were tired out from the morning at the fair.

Artwork

 "Easter bunny with a leg there and there"

By C

 "Tatum or Horton"

by C

 "Hamburger" 

by H

 "Olaf" (?)

By H and C

 "Kitty"

by H

"A bed" 

by C

To the Zoo!

 We have been talking about taking a trip to the zoo for quite awhile, and we finally made it happen!  It seems like every time we planned on it, something would come up or it would rain!  The boys were so happy to go, and so was their mama!

Standing on one leg like the Flamingos 

 We saw beautiful birds, bald eagles, pelicans, monkeys, antelope, zebras, ostrich, turtles, snakes, and more!

And the "blue birds like on Rio!"

 Roaring like a bear!

 Everyone say "cheese!"

 A copperhead...

Found one of these on my doorstep a couple weeks ago...

Thankfully my neighbor and her shovel came to the rescue.  I wasn't quite sure what to do!

 C thought the donkey was hilarious, but his favorite animal was the "minture horsey"

 C took this picture of me and H. 

I think we have some practice to do.

 We took a little boat ride through the zoo. It was so nice to sit and cool off after walking in the sun all morning.

The cutest monkeys at the zoo!  

Snapshots

 Saturday morning at the park.  Happy boys! Each time he tries to hold a little longer by himself.  I can see him getting stronger!

They are so nice to each other ...

(when we are not at home!) 

 Dancing to 'Just Dance' videos on YouTube.  It was so much fun!  They've asked to do it again each night.  I'm not quite sure why they both needed their own platform!  The favorite songs were "Five little monkeys" and "Who let the dogs out"

 Sunday swimming fun!  No crawfish this time!

Aaaahhh, peace and quiet!

Outing with buddies

Too cute to not take a picture of those three. 

After lunch we headed over to the fountain to throw coins in.

After they were leaning over for a minute and H came up soaked, I realized they were picking coins out of the water. 

 No caption needed here!

 Riding in the cars.  Boys will be boys!  We also let the boys get in the photo booth and ride the merry go round. They loved it all!

We finished up the day by letting them go in the tornado blaster.  I was sort of worried that one of the boys might not like it, but they were smiling and laughing so hard!  Fun day! 

Swimming fun

 Swimming brothers!  

After a few days of rain it was so nice to get out and swim one evening.

 After a bit we realized that there was a crawfish in the pool with us!

We caught it and checked it out.  H named it "Sunflower."  Not exactly the name I think up when naming crawfish...  We put him back in and then had fun playing "crawfish."

 Night time swimming is fun!  Expecially now that the mosquitoes are not so bad!  We admired the moon for awhile in the hot tub.

 Silly after swimming selfie

This little guy was on our car waiting for us when we left. 

School, week two

I am loving my lunch dates with this boy!  I love that he is still happy to eat with me and hold my hand in the halls!  I'll be sad when he is too cool for all of that. 

H's class came to music class, he was happy to sit by me, but it was a little weird to teach him, "teacher" is a little different than "mama."  

 I was able to spy on H at his recess time from my classroom window... So fun!  He is loving all of the activities and fun things that he gets to do at school, and tells me all of the rules that he has learned. 

 When he can calm himself down, he sure has been sleeping great.

 He was so happy to see his buddy Sidney!  She is in the other kindergarten class, but they wave at each other every time they see each other!

 C is busy at school too!  He took his monkey decorating homework very seriously!

This morning in my classroom, he likes to come play around with instruments before he has to go to his class.  I love seeing him here throughout the day and hope to have C here next year with us too!