Grandparents' Day

Luke's school had a grandparents brunch a few weeks ago.  Luke was lucky enough to have all 4 of his grandparents attend.

 

Claire was there too.  One of the other moms snapped this cute picture of those two eating.

 

 

Before the brunch, Luke's class did a little performance of "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Twinkle, Twinkle".  When Luke saw his grandparents, he refused to participate.   See below.

 

 

He finally stood with his RiRi (Will's mom) and kind of sang along.  In his defense, I took him to the doctor at lunch that day and he had a double ear infection.  He was just not feeling 100% that morning and seeing all of his grandparents and his mommy and not being able to go to them was hard on the little boy!

 

I was disappointed though because his teachers had told me that he was the best performer when they practiced in the weeks leading up to the performance.

 

Here is a video Will took of Luke singing (with motions) the "Itsy Bitsy Spider".

 

 

A hunting we will go ...

Both the boys had egg hunts at their preschools the week before Easter.  And it was COLD!  Like David-had-on-his-winter-jacket-cold and Luke's-egg-hunt-was-moved-inside-because-it-was-snowing-cold.

 

Here are some pictures from David's hunt.

 

Ms. Michelle giving out instructions.

 

 

And they are off!

 

Some of David's classmates.

 

Group photo.

 

 

David and Mommy!

 

Group photo with Ms. Michelle.

 

Here are pictures from Luke's Easter party and indoor egg hunt.

 

Time to eat.  These kids eat at 3pm like they haven't had 2 breakfasts and lunch already.  (Luke eats breakfast #1 at home, then has breakfast #2 around 8:30 at school.)

 

 

Some of Luke's classmates.

 

Fun Easter sensory bin.  Just glad all that grass isn't at my house!

 

The kids made bunny baskets out of milk cartons.

 

Time to hunt eggs.  Luke only picked up about 3-4 eggs because he kept stopping to eat the candy.

 

Luke and Mommy.

Mack is back!

Twice in 2 months.  How did that happen?

 

Needless to say, I was less than thrilled when I picked David up at preschool on Friday and found out that Mack the monkey was coming home with us again!  Not that I mind having a stuffed monkey at my house.  I do, however, mind having another weekend project thrown onto my plate at the last minute.

 

So mack came to spend another blah weekend with us and I sent this lovely little report to school with David on Monday morning.  What I didn't mention was the Mack spent a lot of time sitting around while David was in TIME OUT.  This weekend will not go down as one of his best behaved!

 

(In case you care how we got Mack twice in 2 months, it's because David just started this class in January.  He got Mack the first week because all the other kids had already gone once the previous semester.  Then, they started drawing names for the second round and David was the second person drawn.  It's a flawed system, I know!)

Christmas Around the World

I  chaperoned David's Christmas around the world

  day at school back in December.  Claire was my sidekick helper as well.

 

First stop: Italy.  Apparently the nativity scene in Italian art.  The kids made a fingerprint nativity.  And the brown paint permanently stained the only Christmas tee David owns.  Oh well, so much for washable paint!

 

Next stop: Mexico.  My favorite ethnic food (with Italy and Greece running a very close second).

 

Ms. Tama spoke about the Mexican tradition of the poinsettia. 

 

And then they sang "Feliz Navidad".

And then they ate chips & salsa.

 

Then it was off to Belgium.  I kind of missed how being dressed as a Christmas tree related to the Belgium holidays but the kids seemed to like her.

 

Pointing out Belgium on the globe.

 

The tree lady demonstrated some kind of smoking St. Nicholas Belgium tradition.

 

And then they ate crepes.  David was not a fan.

 

Last stop: Australia.  It's summer there at Christmastime.  And there are Koala bears.

 

The kids learned lots of other fun facts about Australia but I headed out since the kids were back in their classroom with their teacher (world traveling complete).