Apple Orchard Field Trip

Today was my first field trip of the year.  We went to an apple orchard.  I had so much fun!  We played mini golf, ate donuts, drank cider, played on a cattle and a ship, had a haunted hay ride and ate more donuts.  They even gave us an apple and a pumpkin to take home!  The weather was perfect and I had so much fun!  We also found our way through a labyrinth and walked through this weird tunnel that rolled and had weird lights...it made momma sick!  I fed goats and llamas and there were even bunnies for us to look at.  I wore myself out and fell asleep on the way home after all that fun.  Here are some of the million pictures Momma took of me with the specific purpose of annoying me...

 

This is a pony swing made out of a tire!  It was pretty cool!!

This is the closest Momma will get to tying me down!!

This is me and my class!  I'm on the far right end and my teacher is on the far left!  The girl in the pink in the middle is one of my closeset friends at the moment.  There are two kids missing from this photo, they couldn't come today.  My teacher told us to make funny faces!!

The cider and donuts were really good!!

 I like feeding the goats, they are gentle...

The llama on the other hand...  He freaked me out pretty good, and he knocked the food right out of my hand!!  RUDE!

Yup, bring me somewhere new and I still just want to go to the park.

I was pretty good at this.  I got the ball in the hole pretty quick most of the time.

Quality time

My Gramma came up for Gramma Ma's funeral this past weekend.  I was able to relax and spend some quality time with her before she went home today.  We did lots of things!  I covered get mouth with stickers, we put on make up, played games, watched movies, had a fire put and even played outside!  I got to show her how good I am at pumping when I swing, how well I can ride my bike now and also my class room at school.  I had a great time, even though I've managed to get a cold, and it helped me to keep my mind of off how much I miss my great grandma.

Gramma is a good sport!  She left those stickers on long enough to annoy Momma...which I loved, of course!!

Gramma brought a bat and ball this time, and I had a lot of fun playing baseball with her in the back yard!  I loved it when she ran around and chased me through the yard!!

After all that hard playing we had to chillax for a bit.

Doing homework

Today I got to do homework for the first time! 

Coloring, cutting out circles, glue and math!

Flowers

Daddy's coworkers sent me flowers today to honor my Gramma-Ma's death this past week.  I've been really sad, and these flowers brightened my day.

I love nature!

After school today momma and I went on a nature hike.  Momma bought me this handy dandy magnifying glass to check stuff out with.  We found some cool pods, walnuts, dragonflies and even a muskrat!  We also saw an osprey with a fish in its talons flying over our heads!

More Crazy Hats!

Momma and I made this crazy cowgirl hat for day 3 of crazy hat day!  I love it!

Crazy Hat #1

 

Today was day one of crazy hat week!  I wore this hat that momma crocheted me earlier this year, my teachers laughed!!  This week we are starting to learn site words, this will help me to read later this year.  This week's word is "the".  Momma and I are playing a game, every time I find the word "the" and show her, I get a jelly bean!  I've found two today!  Today was also the first time I got homework.  Two pages!!!  But they're easy enough and I don't mind doing them.

Dinner by fire!

I asked momma if we could have a firepit tonight...she got lazy and had me and daddy make our own dinner too!!!

My first day of school 2012!

So today is the day!!  It's my first day of young 5's (pre-K).

I've got my back pack and I'm ready to go...

Sort of...  I'm a bit nervous to be honest.

But, only a little bit.  I'm a whole lot of excited!  Here we are waiting in the car for my teacher to come and get me out.  That's how they do it.  Its sort of like a drive through.  Momma pulls up in the car, they open the door and get me out.  I guess its safer for me that way.

 

Momma thought a little pre-first day interview was in order!

 

And then of course it was my turn!!  That's my teacher!  I jumped out of the car with out even looking back.  So long mom!  I'm outta here!! 

Momma has to come into the building to get me from my class.  My teacher gave me hugs and even posed for this nice picture of leaving my first day of class!!  Do you see how excited and happy I am?  It was a great first day!

We learned about the letter "M" (Mmm, Mmm, Mmm) today.  The shape cirlce (I already know my shapes mom!) and the color green!  I guess they are easing us into school with all of this easy learning stuff!  I cut out that M&M all by myself and even colored it rainbow color!

 

And then no first day of school would be complete with out a "post-first-day-of-school" interview!!

 

Yeah, I'm pretty psyched to go back again tomorrow!!

Meet & Greet

Today was my meet & greet for school.  I will be going to school every day of the week now.  My teacher from last year thought I was pretty smart, so they are putting me in the young 5's Pre-K class instead of 4 yr old preschool.  I'll be learning math and science and even how to read a little bit...and all before I'm in Kindergarten!  The greatest part is that I got to get a back pack this year, and a folder to keep all of my homework in!

 

So to celebrate, momma took me out to a nice lunch at Panera's!  I just love getting their Mac n' Cheese and yogurt pop!

The nice part was that momma and daddy got to come with me because I'm a bit nervous about starting in a new class where I won't know any of the other kids!

This is where I'll be hanging my back pack every day!

It didn't take me long to jump in and get acquainted.  I always introduce myself, and then I sit down and play.  These two girls were pretty friendly and I enjoyed getting to play a little while momma and daddy listened to my teacher talk.

In the end I was really excited for this new class.  We have a bunny named Harvey (they we can even bring home on the weekends to care for!), a hermit crab and a hamster.  Rumor has it there is also a fish, but we didn't get to see him yet.  My teacher seems very nice and out going, and the assistant does too.  I'm looking forward to being able to learn about science and to learn how to read.  There are ten other students in my class, including a boy that was in my class last year (guess I'm not all alone after all)! Next week I get  to wear a crazy hat all week!  That's exciting!

Last Day of Summer Vacay!

 

Today is the last day of my summer vacation before heading back to preschool tomorrow.  Momma took my friend and I to an indoor play yard (since it was pouring outside that was perfect!) Where we had lots of fun running, climbing and sliding...and of course we had to eat too!

We had a blast!

 

Clearly!

Zoo day

Momma is determined to not let summer end before it is absolutely necessary...so today we went to the zoo for a couple of hours.  It was nice having daddy be able to come since he is usually at work.  But boy was it hot and miserable, and I even lost my sunglasses!