The school puts on a fall festival where the kids can dress up and come and play games. They each got a punch card and went to each station to play a game and win a prize or candy. They also had a storytelling room that was wonderful. It was an elderly gentleman and they were scary but not too scary stories and I even found that I was enthralled in the stories... so much fun for the kids.
Lauren's buddy Ben Edmondson from soccer.
Oooohhhhhh Scary!
Knock the hat off the scarecrow!
Lauren got to decorate a cookie at the end of the party!
Lauren's class won a pajama party at school for great behavior. They have a jar that they fill up with pom-poms when they are extra good. Mrs. K is super nice and I really enjoy coming up and helping in the class. I am slowly learning all fo the kids names and getting to know them a little better. They make me laugh every time I am up there. There is such a HUGE range of what kids know and don't know...but I love helping them try to figure it out and when the just randomly guess...you never know what they are going to say.
We had a girls day out in Des Moines. Joyce, Pat, Myrna, Mal, Lea and Caroline, Stacey, Cheryl and her 2 friends all met up for lunch at Champs and then we shopped. I spent the morning at Lauren's soccer game and Caroline didn't want to shop so she came to the game with us... they had a great time. Elise and Caroline are two peas in a pod that is for sure (they are second cousins). They were cheerleading for the "tigers". It was a gorgeous fall morning, crisp but warmed up quickly.
Grandpa brough rocket balloons and they fly really high in the air and make a funny noise and the girls would chase them and try to catch them when they fall. This entertained us for hours!
Lauren was so pooped by Saturday nigth she was asking to go to bed at 6:00, without dinner. I made her a quick sandwich so she could crash, and she did about 7:00 that night.
We had an early birthday celebration for Elise's birthday... almost 7!
Elise has Justin Beiber FEVER... she thinks he's the bomb!
My little Diva! She is wearing Grandma Hubbard's original sunglasses from the 1970's!
Charlie- 15 months old
Watching Lauren's soccer game.
The girls were thrilled to see Grandma and Grandpa Divine when they got off of the bus.
Playing Sequence with Papa. Elise was telling Grandpa to "hurry up" and Lauren told her to "be nice he's old"... ha that was funny!
Teammate Lizzie
We went up to the school playground for a bit so the girls could show off their new monkey bar skills.
Lauren was so proud because she had finally mastered the monkey bars at school. She skips them so she only really does 2 of the bars. She had to show off to Grandma and Granpa Hubbard.
September 24th, 2011
Elise has mastered the round monkey bars at school... she has worked really hard to do this and is so strong... I can't hang for very long that is for sure!
The girls had a really fun week at school. It is Johnston's Homecoming this week. The week started off with Hat Day (Lauren wore in IU hat and Elise wore her pink sunhat), then the next day was crazy socks day followed by Neon/Tie-Dye Day and ending with Spirit day.... the girls wore there purple to cheer for the team. Elise and I went over to the homecoming parade and it was pure entertainment. She is such a social butterfly. She knew so many people and it made me laugh that every time we turned around.. she knew someone else. She got a bunch of candy and "junk" that she brought home to share with Lauren who wasn't feeling so great on Friday.
