Special Day at School

At NW's preschool if you have a summer birthday you get to celebrate your birthday about 6 months early. With 4 and 5 year olds, everything has to be fair and equal. Since her birthday is in July, she celebrated it today at school. They send a bag home with her and she is supposed to pick out 2 of her favorite things to show the class and talk about. This year she brought a doll and one of her Octonaut characters. She wanted to bring all of her Octonauts because in her mind they were all Octonauts and that only counted as one thing. I eventually got through to her and she only brought one.

Here she is in front of the class leading them in the welcome song.

Here she is showing the class the picture that she made for her special day. It tells everyone what her favorite color is, what her favorite food is and what she wants to be when she grows up. Purple, Honey Nut Cheerios and a doctor.

After preschool they all went out to celebrate her big day. Here they are both worshiping the popcorn maker.

LW can devour popcorn. Here is an action shot of her little hands shoveling the popcorn to her mouth. She is a machine when you put a bowl of popcorn in front of her. She loves it.

Laundry Room

So I decided to freshen up the laundry room a little. I added a cabinet, gave it a fresh coat of paint, put in new lights and cleaned it up. Now that it is almost done, the kids love to hang out down there and watch TV and play. It's funny. We have never spent as much time in the laundry room as we have in the last week. The kids want to go watch TV down there and it's the smallest TV in the house.

Since the cabinets were empty, LW thought it would be fun to hide in the cabinets. Somehow she conned me into squeezing in there too. Then she would have mom shut the doors and we wold sit in the dark.

She was in the upper cabinets too.

She insisted on us closing the door.

Switching gears...NW had a Valentines party at school. Everyone brought candy and they read books, played games and made crafts for the day. Sounds like fun to me.