Good-bye Summer Celebration

August 24, 2010 we officially said good-bye to summer with some fun. We invited our parents, grandparents, aunt and uncles to join us for a BBQ at daycare at the end of the day. When we arrived in the morning we asked about the coming Scavenger Hunt and were disappointed that we had to wait until the end of the day. The wait was worth it!

We played with two teams the boys vs the girls, even though the girls outnumbered the boys 2:1! The girls won, but only just barely. As our reward we opened the stay at daycare prizes. We received a bat and ball, some Littlest Pet Shop animals (to which the girls squealed in delight), flat orange discs to make bases for baseball, and some markers and paper for the babies.

We also received some goodie boxes. In the girls boxes (which are the perfect size for taking a sandwich to school and have our names on them) were a Littlest Pet Shop animal, two heart bracelets, and two rings. In the boys boxes were a small video game, an action figure, two train bracelets and two rings.

While we waited for Jim to finish cooking our hotdogs and chicken we played in the yard with our family and friends. We had a lot of fun showing off for our families.

We had supper of chicken, hot dogs, toss salad, Friendship Fruit Salad (we all brought in a fruit and Jenna and Delia made it into salad), and milk or water to drink. We ate outside on a giant picnic blanket (some adults found a table to sit at and others balanced their supper on their knees) before running around some more.

We ended our day with some ice cream cake. This time Nancy put Oreo's in it and it was so yummy!

We were sad to go home, but glad that we had this chance to get together for a meal.

Easter Party 2010

We celebrated Easter a little late this year. We waited until school vacation so that the school aged boys could join us in the fun. A few weeks before the party Delia sat some of us down for a little talk:

Delia: "Who got candy for Eater?"
Us: "MEEEE!"
Delia: "Do you think you have a lot of candy?"
Us: "Yesss!"
Delia: "All right, since you all have candy at home for our party we aren't going to have candy in our eggs."
Us: "Can we have goodie bags?"
Delia: "Yes. What would you like in your goodie bags that is not candy?"
Us: "Little toys, fruit, stuffed animals, tractors, cars, macaroni and cheese, baby doll stuff."
Delia: "All right, that's a good list. You'll have to wait and see what you get!"

For our party we started with an egg hunt. In our eggs were puzzle pieces. We put the pieces together and found a clue on the back! The clue led us to some treasure and another clue! We found 4 clues and 4 treasures! In addition to our Goodie Bags (which we could take home) we found (to keep at daycare): photo albums one called "I Spy ABC's at Daycare" and the other "Happy Faces", tea party stuff, two stuffed animals (monkey and a bear), and some more Hot Wheels Track.

It was a lot of fun. We can't wait for next year!

Easter 2010

Easter 2010

Birthday Party

Today we celebrated three birthdays. All our babies turned one (or will be 1 soon)!

We ate lunch and then played pin the #1 on the Birthday Cake while we waited for lunch to be cleaned up. It was a lot of fun watching our friends spin around and try to walk straight. Even Nancy, Delia, Katrina, and Jenna played. Then the birthday babies opened their presents. The first was a walk behind/ride on toy and the second gift was 100 plastic balls. We had ice cream cake and watched the birthday babies get really messy. When we were done with our ice cream we got to play with our new balls in the Napping Room.

Happy First Birthday

Happy Birthday

Happy 5th Birthday!

Happy 11th Birthday!

"A Rat! There's a rat in my soup!"

I'm not sure who had the most fun on Friday. Nancy and I had a lot of fun planning this day. The Pre-K kids and I have been reading The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo so I thought that we might celebrate the book (we aren't quite finished yet) since there was no school on Friday.

The kids, and us adults, dressed up. Nancy was the king, Delia was the queen, Katrina was the Princess Pea (no one was a mouse or rat), and the children dressed up as knights and ladies.
In the morning we made mouse masks (see previous post) and watched the movie Despereaux.

For lunch a couple people had a little surprise in their soup! There was a rat in their soup! We also drank our milk out a fancy goblets and wore our dress up clothes at the table.

At nap we read more of Despereaux and have finally passed through the flash backs in the book. We are looking forward to see how the movie and the book differ with the ending.

Despereaux Mouse Mask Craft

Easter Egg Hunt

The day of our hunt it rained like cats and dogs! We were told to not worry, the hunt would go on! While one of our adults hid the eggs in the house another adult read stories to us where we couldn't see the hiding going on.



The eggs were hidden in, on, and on top of things. One egg was even hidden under a cat! Some of the eggs had goodies inside and other had letters to make the word of our "big present". Our "big present" would be something we could all share and enjoy!

Our loot: jelly beans, tatoo, car or braclet, rasins, stickers, and a top.

And the Eggs said...

We got brand new markers to share!!

Our Teddies

Buddy

Grape Juice

Emma the Bear

Kitty

Berry Berry

Zipper