Wednesday, September 30, 2009

ABC's and 123's

Elijah started preschool a few weeks ago! We are still surprised at how quickly he is growing up. He is in the 2-day morning program so he goes every Thursday and Friday. So far he loves it! He runs on into his room barely saying goodbye and is so excited when I pick him up each day. He is already talking about all his new friends that he plays with and all the fun things he is doing. I asked him who in particular was his friend (besides Caleb) and he said, "All the kids are my friends." How sweet! Here are some pictures from his first day and from the parent open house.

Here he is in his classroom with his new bag in front of his bag hook. He was pretty excited that he was assigned the red firetruck symbol.


This was a failed attempt of trying to get a picture with his friend Caleb. Oh well!


They had a ladder fire truck at the open house. There was a long line to spray the fire hose so we just took a turn driving the truck. Elijah had a hard time keeping his head up with the heavy helmet on.


It was pretty neat that they had the ladder all the way up. When we were leaving we watched them bring it down. Elijah thought that was pretty cool too.


Elijah met Sparky. He calls him the fire puppy.


When Elijah saw this picture he said, "I wore that jacket, it was too heavy for me. I'm too little." I think that sums it up well!

Monday, September 14, 2009

Strawberry Picking

I have been meaning for the longest time to post about some of our fun summer outings. Here goes . . .
I don't even recall what month now (July?) but we decided to go strawberry picking. We went to Emma Krumbee's because they are just down the road from us. They have hydroponic plants, which means they grow them in Styrofoam containers up off the ground making them easier to pick.

Evan was just so excited he could not keep his eyes open! (or maybe that was because it was so sunny!)

Elijah searched for all of the red berries.


They gave us scissors to cut them off. Elijah needed a little help with his aim! He accidentally cut a few berries in half.

Yummy!

They had a few interesting wood creations around the grounds. Elijah thought this was a chair and wanted to sit in it.


They also had a couple fun play forts to play on. This boat was a lot of fun!


Hi Daddy!

They had a couple tractors too that Elijah had fun driving.


Stay tuned for more of our summer fun!