Month: October 2010

Quinn\’s preschool had it\’s first school event — the Heritage Parade.  It\’s a chance for kids to either celebrate their heritage and/or dress up in Halloween costumes.  There was a little bit of both.

I had ordered Quinn a Max Wolf Suit similar to this from Where the Wild Things Are.  The wolf suit was so adorable and I thought he would connect with it because he and Don have the story memorized.  However Quinn did not want to have anything to do with it and would ask us to put the costume back in the box.  My back-up plan was to put him in a Thomas tshirt and put on his train conductor overalls.  Well, Thursday morning rolled around and Quinn was not so happy about getting the overalls on and cried until I took them off.  He told me they were too small 🙂  So Quinn wore his Thomas tshirt and jeans to school and I brought the overalls in because I\’ve heard that the teachers can work miracles.  Sure enough!

The parents are invited to the school to see the kids parade in their costumes.  We obviously think that Quinn is the most amazing kid in the world, but it is still really incredible to see him in action at preschool.    The teachers led the kids outside on the \’train\’ which they use whenever they are travelling around the school.  Look at our boy!!

 And look at the mamarazzi!  It looks like a red carpet event.  (I guess it is in our eyes.)  Lots of tears where shed on Thursday.

 The kids were led up on to the stage so the mamas and papas could give them a big round of applause and click, click, click.   I posted a similar picture on my facebook page and someone commented how Quinn was almost a head taller than every other kid.  Wow, I had not noticed that.   There is another little girl, Julia, who is almost Quinn\’s height.  She\’s in the pink/black Minnie Mouse costume 4 kids to Quinn\’s right.  Her mom is also Amy.

 After the parade, we all enjoyed snacks and drinks and oohed and aahed at all the adorable kids.  Here\’s Quinn with Miss Bunny and his class mates Julia, Gianna, and Meredith.   I am a class mom with Julia and Gianna\’s mom.

Our first school event was so much fun and I look forward to many, many more!

My Holistic Moms group met up at Trailside Nature Center for a guided nature walk with one of their naturalists, Mister Rob.  He talked to the kids about insects, worms, and other little creatures that you find in the woods.

Each child was given a collection jar and a large popsicle stick and we ventured in to the woods to look under logs and leaves to find squirmy, slimy, squishy things.

At the end of the collection, we put all of our catches in this specimen tray to assess our finds.  Lots of slugs and earthworms.  This kids had fun picking up the worms with the popsicle sticks and watching them squirm.  See the little boy in the top left corner.  That\’s Luke and he\’s about 18 months old.  After he spent 5 minutes moving the worms around with his popsicle stick, he decided to give it a big lick because, well, that\’s what 18 month old little boys do.  All the mom\’s had a moment of AHHH! which caused little Luke to burst in to tears.

The nature center has a great indoor area where the kids can play and investigate.  This is a popular place in the winter once it gets too cold to go outside and play.

His tongue, that is.

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