Christmas Fun

Merry Christmas memories!

Thank you everyone for helping to make this years daycare party a fun time had by all. Thanks also goes out to Nickolas who took all the photos, Chloe who wrapped all the presents, Randall who made the ham, and to all the parents for my "keeping warm in winter" basket. I love it!

Donna

Your never too big for dress up time!

After receiving new dress up clothes from Chloe's friends Natalie and Melissa the "big boys" thought they would get into the Halloween dress up mood by doing a little fashion show before school!

A day at the apple farm

Nathan found this mini pumpkin when we first walked through the gate. He caried it all over the farm the entire time we stayed there.

Even though some of the corn that the kids picked wasn't big enough to eat, the ones that we had for dinner that night were the best corn that I have tasted in a long time!

Amelia enjoyed her fresh picked apple SO much that all that has left to hand back to me was the stem.

Seconds after this photo was taken drew got his first bee sting just under his neck.

All the kids enjoyed checking out all the animals in the barns.

Now thats a pumpkin!

Just looking at the photos brings me back to the warmth of the day. We couldn't ask for a nicer way to spend the first Pro D day of the new school year. Other than Drew and Chloe getting stung by a bee, it was a fun filled day. I think feeding the goats was the highlight for a few people, but my favorite part was definatly biting into the Honney Crisp apple that had dew on one side and felt warm from the sun on the other. Yummmmm!

A somersault day

Its a somersault kind of day!

Phoenix showed all his friends how to do a somersault on the side of the little hill in the back yard today. Everyone wanted to give it a try including Nathan who only got as far as falling over sideways, but still spent 20 minutes trying .

Noah

Noah........ohhh Noah....... what can I say. Keeping up to you is such a challenge some days!Your exuberance and imagination fill everyday with so much. Some days you open the door and you remind me of a Tasmanian whirlwind with the way you can instantly raise the bar on the activity level, the noise level, the excitement level, and bring everyone into your rough and tumble world of play. But then on some days, days like today, you sit beside at story time and blow me away by you reading a book to me! How did that happen!?!

Watching you grow and change from this round little baby who just sat outside with us on the grass and watched the world go by (taking notes I'm sure) to this confident, energetic, playful, smart, imaginative, silly and loving big grade 1er! This only reinforces the notion that I truly DO have the best job in the whole world! I thank all of the little people who have touched my life because thanks to you, it's not just a job, it's a privilege.

strawberry fields forever

Ahhhhh....... for me strawberry picking always marks the beginning of summer. While walking out to our spot to start picking we noticed how funny it seemed that every year it's someone different who gets to ride in the wagon with all the buckets because it's their turn to be the little kid.


I still think the berry field would make more of a profit if they weighed the children, not the buckets.
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This year was really neat because we found a hidden treasure amongst the strawberries.... a little bird nest with eggs!

a beach day

Our first trip to the beach for this summer was spent exploring the rocks, looking for baby crabs, building sand castles, feeling the warm summer sun on our bare toes as we squished them into the wet sand, and of course playing in waves and getting just a little wet!

One of the first things we discovered at the beach was a jelly fish swimming in the water close to the shore. we caught it in a bucket so everyone could have a chance to see it up close. That poor jellyfish was poked at for at least 20 minutes before we set him back into the ocean . Everyone had a great time at the beach even Hazel who got to play with a few dogs that we met while eating our picnic up on the grass field over looking the ocean.