On Friday we hosted Grandparent's Day at St. John's.
We had our first ever Grandparent's Day last year and it was a huge success.
I, in all humility, like to think that it was my idea to try a Grandparent's Day last year and many of the activities this year were also my idea. I don't get involved in too many school functions for a few reasons:
1. I don't get paid enough to do extra curricullars
2. At my age, I really have no interest in many of the extras, been there, done that
3. I am happiest in the privacy of my preschool room with my little students and their parents.
4. And, lastly, my preschoolers are usually too little to participate in many of the extras
But, being a grandparent, myself, makes me more interested in this activity and having seen it work so well at many other schools, I thought it was time to try it here at St. John's.
Last year, it was mainly a day for the younger children to enjoy with grandparents, (Grades Pre. -3)
This year, it was decided that we should include the entire school body and we did.
We had different stations for everyone and they participated in activities which included the parachute, a craft project, a snack, Bingo, and story/sing time.
I will share a few pictures in my next post since our principal has my camera card to download all the pictures that I took.
My mom and John attended this special day with Soliana while I took care of the crafting station.
Soliana had spent the night with us on Thursday so she could be here for the big day.
We ate at Culvver's on Thursday night after taking the Escalade out for drive.
She helped us grocery shop at Aldi's and Walmart. She is such a great helper and was so happy to ride the elephant and horse at Walmart as payment for her help with the shopping.
On Friday after our Grandparent's Day, John and I took Soliana back to Oshkosh. We surprised Tiz by picking her up at school and then the fun began.
We made Halloween cupcakes and pumpkin pie play dough.
I am not sure why they are punching the play dough. Must be like punching bread down when it is rising.
John captured this moment and thought it was so funny.
We met mama and papa for pizza after the baking/punching.
Yummy pizza at Christiano's.
We watched some TV and called it a day.
On Saturday, we had hoped to go on our annual trip to Waldvogel's pumpkin patch in Beaver Dam, but the weather was not cooperating with drizzle and cold weather, so we opted for a trip to mama's craft show followed by lunch at, wait for it, Culver's! Soli loved the grilled cheese.
Here is one of her newest hats. It is an Elsa hat from Frozen and very popular.
We bought a few very necessary items and went to a little pumpkin farm right outside of Oshkosh.
It filled the bill for a pumpkin patch experience at a much smaller and cheaper venue than Waldvogels and the girls seemed to enjoy it every bit as much.
The sun was out, but there was still a chill in the air.
There were two small bounce houses that were just the right size for two small girls.
They loved them and it was hard to get them out to move on other things.
There were the usual animals.
Neither girl is really all that "into" animals, they take after their grandparents in that area, but the animals were cute enough and served a purpose at the little farm.
There was a very cute little home made golf course with some very nice obstacles.
I liked this course much better than the bigger one at Waldvogels which does not have near as much personality as this one does.
Here is Tiz in her "hole in one" pose which dates back to the days of mini golf with Mallory when she was Tiz's age.
There were the usual photo op wooden things, but just not as many.
You could play a friendly game of corn hole. The game with John and the girls got a bit crazy, but their laughter was such music to my ears.
The real treasure of this little farm was the actual pumpkin patch where the pumpkins were still attached to the stems and you really got to "pick" them.
The girls found other treasures, too, like gourds.
It took quite awhile for each of them to find that perfect pumpkin/
It took Tiz a bit longer to find hers, so while she and I continued to search, Soli and John took a ride on this home made train type thing. It actually had folding chairs as seats. It was so funny to see them riding in it.
And, yes, it was driven by a big pumpkin lady.
We just had enough time to leave the farm and get to the theater where we watched, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" What a fun movie. We all enjoyed it so much.
It was funny, but had such a sweet message, too.
We took two very sugared up girls home and dropped them off.
We had dinner at Fazoli's and headed home with another head and heart filled with memories.
