Into The Land of Nod: October 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween! Boo

Happy Halloween from Jason, victim #1, fairy Princess, and ninja Kai.

Can you guess who designed which pumpkin?

Monday, October 29, 2012

Who Loves Fall

Little Man does! And I used to until the Tigers got swept in the World Series.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Roar!

Two of my most favorite Detroit Tiger's fans! Here's to hoping we can call them World Camps once again.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Different event, same theme. Andrew is in Little Man's class at school. An evite went out to invite him to, what I thought, sounded like a most excellent art themed party. His first response was a resounding "NO". We talked about it, Sean talked about it, still "NO". A week passes, I have not replied and what do I see on the list.... His best buddies all have a YES next to their name. Ah ha, just the ammo I needed. After letting Little Man know that Avery and Caleb and Jack and Nicholas are all going perhaps he could rethink his NO. It took a few but said he would go! (Chalk one up for the parents.) Couple of days pass, off to the store to pick out a present. Check. Back in the van and back to him "NO, not going". What happened between the store and van? Seriously, what happened?! Well, we aren't going down that easy. Without further discussion it is decided between the adults that Sean and Little Miss will have a daddy daughter date after they drop Mommy and Little Man at the party. Can you guess how the party went?

Everyone so excited to see each other OUTSIDE of school!

Station 1. Painting

Station 2. Light table for drawing and tracing

Station 3. Black paper and chalk drawing

Station 4. Clay molding.

And wow to whoever thought it was a good idea to give 5 year old boys rolling pins and mallets. I am shocked no one walked out of there without a black eye or stitches

PSSSTTTT, Little Man. I told you so :)

Monday, October 15, 2012

Jog-A-Thon

The fundraising was complete and all that was left to do was run, Forrest, run!
Someone's dad is a bigwig at Nike because he brought over a 2012 Gold Medalist from the London games! (the parents were way more excited about this than the kids). Sanya Richards-Ross won a gold in the 400 meter. She has a great back story and never stopped trying. She gave quite an inspiring speech about Do the Very Best That You Can Do.

One of the kindergarten's dad is a fire fighter and he showed up in the firetruck AND the firefighters did laps for the full 45 minutes in all of their gear! Masks, helmets, tanks, the whole 9 yards. There was also a helicopter that kept doing a fly over. SPX (St Pius X school) really knows how to put on a show and make things happen.

Once the starter gun sounded our Little Man was off to a quick start. I was so excited to see him pumping his little legs and watched him go round and round. After lap 7 he stopped for water and decided he was done and ready to go home now. We revisited the speech and I reminded him that there still a lot of time, take a break and he is getting back out there. And that happened, with me walking laps right next to him. The rest of the time pretty much was walking a few laps and taking a break, repeat. We ended the jog-a-thon with 25 laps total. Not too shabby for someone ready to pack it in after 7.

Each class made their own class sign

Kc class picture.

Pre race and ready to run like the wind

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Ever Seen Kindergarten Cop?

The 2 year old just loudly informed us that girls have 'ginas and boy's have penises.

Party at the Pumpkin Patch

The rains have set in for the start of the fall/winter session. Those rains have reminded me that I was remiss in posting the pictures from our pumpkin patch outing...LAST weekend. There were 3 families, lots of kids, and a whole lotta fun! This place was like Halloween on steroids.