Field Day

My sweet girl goes to the best Pre-K ever!! Last week we had Field Day- so much fun!!

SHS Pre-K Class of 2011 shirts! How cute are they?!

Fulmer's Farmstead

Beautiful!

Fulmer's Farmstead is a working family farm. It has several buildings over 100 years old and full of antiques. The family was so kind and hospitable. It was amazing, our best field trip this year!!

Plowing the potatoes, the old fashioned way!

Gathering the potatoes!

Milking the cow.

Grace was feeding lettuce to this goat- I think he liked it!

Granny Breland making homemade biscuits for us. We ate them right out of the cast iron skillet with fresh butter. They were delicious!!

Mrs.W's class

Grace cuddling up with a chicken!

The family just found baby kittens on the farm a few days before we arrived.

Train Ride to Laurel

Have you ever heard of a cruise to nowhere? I went on a fieldtrip with Grace's class that was a bit of a train ride to nowhere- Laurel, Mississippi, to be exact! It really was fun though. We took the school bus to the train station, and then climbed aboard. The children all had a fun freak-out when the conductor announced that the train was headed to New York City! No, kiddos, we were only staying put until the next stop! The school bus picked us up again at the Laurel station and took us to the park, where we had a picnic lunch and played, and then took the school bus home.

Bus Ride

Train Station

Pee-Pee in the Pot-ty!!

Marion used the toilet for the first time this morning!! Not in the household one, but in her red Dora potty chair. It went something like this...

Mom: "Marion, stop taking your diaper off!"

*twenty minutes later*

Mom: "Marion, if you don't want to wear a diaper, you need to start using the potty!"

*Marion runs to sit on her Dora potty*

Mom: "Marion, if you make pee pee in that potty, I'll give you some candy."

Grace: "Candy?! When I was learning to go potty, you gave me DRIED FRUIT!!" (oh, the first and second child differences!!)

I absolutely did not expect her to go. She has sat on the potty, done nothing, wiped, and flushed for quite some time now... but then, she went!! Not just a tinkle, she filled that Dora potty up! The things a mommy gets excited over ;)

After we sang the potty song, and did the potty dance, she picked out a big pink sucker. As soon as she had swallowed the last bit, she asked for more. I promised more candy for more potty... she ran to the potty and did it again!! Five minutes later, she did it again. I am now only offering 3 Smarties for each tinkle. My baby LOVES candy :)

Congrats to my big girl Marion!! She has a big girl bed in her near future, and maybe she'll be looking cute in some big girl panties soon!!

Easter 2011

We celebrated Easter in so many ways!

Marion's Mommy and Me Class




Marion's Mom's Day Out Class
Grace was out of school, so she visited Marion's class!

Sitting with Friends at the Garden Club Egg Hunt

Dying eggs with Nana on the night before Easter

Easter Morning!

The bunny brought Grace art supplies, princess make up, candy, bubbles and chalk, along with a few other things!

The bunny brought Marion lots of Play Doh, bubbles, chalk, candy flashcards and a few extras!

Easter afternoon with friends.

Easter Monday, enjoying some warm spring weather with bubbles and sprinklers!!