Why she gets a bath at least once day, sometimes twice

Although you can't see it in the pictures, I did actually give her paper to paint on. Apparently it is much more fun to paint yourself...

Rhyme Time Video

Here is Samuel's part from Rhyme Time (sorry it isn't the best quality. The only way I could figure out how to extract part of the movie was to view it onscreen while recording it with our camera.)

And here are a few more pictures from Kindergarten:

Field Day:

Eating Lunch in the Cafeteria Day (this was such a big deal for them since they were normally just in school in the morning. They felt like such big kids when they got to eat in the cafeteria one day):

Kindergarten graduate

School ended here last week, so Samuel is all done with Kindergarten now. He is officially a first grader. How did he get to be so old? Here is a picture of him with his teacher on the last day of school:

He had the most awesome teacher this year. She did some of the neatest things with the kids in her class. The shirts they are both wearing in the picture above are kind of hard to see, but it's a picture of all of the kids in the class (on the front) and their signatures (on the back).

On the last day of school, the parents were invited to come in and watch a movie called Rhyme Time. It featured each child in the class acting out a nursery rhyme. Samuel did The Itsy Bitsy Spider. I have a copy of the movie, but I'm not sure how to just show his part, so for now a picture of him in his costume will have to do:

If I can figure out how to post part of the movie, I will do that soon. It is really cute.

Bored with Breakfast?

If you're stuck in a breakfast rut, try something new: eat like a cat.

Calling All Umi Friends...

If you've seen the show Team Umizoomi before, you'll recognize that as a line from the opening song. Becca loves this show, which teaches math concepts through these 3 super cute cartoon characters, Milli, Geo, and Bot:

Our local rec center just offered a Team Umizoomi event for kids her age, so we signed up. It was just for an hour one morning, but they packed a lot into that hour. Here she is after making her own Milli hat, complete with long ponytails:

Milli uses her ponytails on the show to measure things, so here is Becca measuring things with her ribbon ponytails:

They glued shapes onto foam to make a shape belt like Geo wears:

They solved some missions, one where they had to find stickers of animals who lived in the sea and put them on a poster:

And one that I didn't get a picture of (but was her favorite!) where they had to hunt around the building for (stuffed) animals who were supposedly missing from the zoo. It was so cute seeing all of these 2-year-olds running around finding the stuffed animals.

She also got a special snack (cookies in the shape of numbers) with frosting she got to spread by herself (okay, that part might have been her most favorite):

And at the end they all did the crazy shake dance that they do on the show:

It was a really nice program and she had a great time!

Every Dog Has Its Day

Tired of riding in your stroller? Here's a way to spice things up - take your grandmother's dog for a walk in it instead!

(Moose was quite happy to ride in the stroller for a bit. Probably because of all of the goldfish crackers you can see Becca giving him above.)

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

A few weeks ago Samuel's class did a musical performance called The Bear Went Over the Mountain. They learned the songs in music class and rehearsed in school for weeks beforehand. The show was at night, and 4 of the 6 Kindergarten classes at his school were part of it. Here are some pictures (it's a little hard to see Samuel because the girl in front of him is wearing a big white bow in her hair, which is covering up part of his face, but you get the general idea)

And here is a video of one of the songs:

Kindergartners are so incredibly cute.