I volunteered to chaperone James's field trip to a nearby park (such a weird choice for a field trip), and since I got there early Rett got to go to yoga class with everyone. He loved it! They played the "trees in the forest" game where his yoga teachers walks away from them and they sneak after her. Then when she turns around they have to do tree pose and be still trees. If they fall they are out!
Airplane pose:
The field trip was extremely cold and miserable. We were on the water, so the wind felt like it was freezing your bones! The kids were supposed to complete a nature scavenger hunt, but no one could really focus. Could someone please put me on the field trip committee next year? Because this was a waste of time.
The chickens have started to consistently lay 8-12 eggs a day and before I knew it, we had 12 dozen eggs in the fridge! So I put all the extra eggs for sale on facebook in the morning and I had all of them sold by parent pick up (mostly to parent friends from James's school). Now we have two or three people who consistently buy eggs from us and I have to say no to so many other people who ask us for eggs! I seriously wish I had twice as many chickens so that we could sell more eggs!
Radishes starting to grow in the school garden:
I was helping in James's class like I always do on Tuesday mornings and James was having a rough day. He had a substitute, which really threw him off and then he had to do a math worksheet that sent him over the edge (we are struggling with three digit addition and subtraction and with carrying/borrowing. He. does. not. get. it.). I figured the day was a wash anyway with the substitute, so I just took him home with me when I left to get Rett from preschool. James was so happy and excited, you would have thought I busted him out of jail!! On the way home, we stopped for lunch at chickfila, and then we stopped by the bank. I decided to pull out some dollar coins, dimes, and pennies to try to help James visualize the numbers when we do his math (dollar coin represents 100, dimes, 10's, etc..)
Rett doing his preschool homework on his dry erase board:
Rett decided that he wanted to play school, so he put a chair next to the dry erase board that is the "teacher chair" (just like it is at his school). He introduced the letter of the week and then assigned me to different centers. It was so cute! When he wanted me to switch centers he would yell "freeze!" and then if he had to say it again he would say, "Gosh, I had to say it twice!"
James didn't finish a writing center at school, so he brought it home to work on. He was supposed to plan a comic strip and then build it with legos (his teacher has a small bin in the class) and then caption it. He was frustrated that the legos in class weren't what he wanted, so he made a deal with his teacher that he would do it at home with his legos. He spent over an hour putting it all together and setting the different scenes! I thought it would be too complicated to draw, so we took pictures of each scene and then he wrote out the captions and we printed and glued it to multiple sheets of paper. It was amazing what he can do when he can do it the way he wants to!
One of Rett's buddies from class, Zander, had a birthday party at the park. They were so smart, they planned the party for immediately after preschool, so a lot of the kids just went straight to the park for pizza and games. Rett was so excited to play with Zander outside of school. And eat cupcakes, of course!
We saw Lego Movie 2 in the movie theater. We all loved it!
Our local library had a fun "blind date with a book" table, so I couldn't resist getting one for James. It is a total mystery what you are checking out, they put the first sentence of the book on the outside with an age range and the genre. Since we were almost finished with our chapter book read aloud, I thought it would be a fun way to try something new.
Here it is! I had never heard of it before, it's called "The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid" and it's about a bored son of a French ambassador who makes friends with a local pickpocket gang and they teach him how to pickpocket. It has been so fun to read! I wish it wasn't such a big book and the chapters are pretty long but we are loving it.
James got sent a flat Stanley from his cousin and I thought it would be fun to take a picture with him by the horses and the goats. I didn't realize James had his bb gun in the picture until I looked down at my phone! I had him put it down and take another one without a gun that we would be able to send to an elementary school :)
Flat Stanley checking out the eggs the class are incubating:
Meeting James's teacher:
We couldn't resist buying more easter egger chicks at the feed store (the ones who lay blue or green eggs)
Our local humane society was doing heavily discounted spays and neuters, so I signed Baymax up as soon as I could. He is so big, that the cost of the surgery otherwise would be at least 4 times as much! He was not happy about wearing a cone for two weeks, but he got used to it pretty quickly. Now that he has recovered, it seems like having the surgery has really calmed him down and matured him, which is what we were hoping for!
Trigger got all prettied up for our neighbor's birthday party. She is 2 years old and loooooooves horses. She got to ride him around and a few other kids wanted rides too. Our neighbors invited us to the party, but Trigger's owner did all the work of the pony rides so we didn't have to do anything but show up.
The boys had a blast at the party, they just played on their two bouncy houses the entire time.
The next day, we a did a few pony rides of our own:
