March 20, 2009

Jacob is baaack! If he had school today, he would have gone! So, without school, we ran a bunch of fun errands. We have 3 birthday parties in the next couple weeks, so we went to Barnes & Noble and a fun toy store nearby. Then, we went to Dillards and got Jacob a new pair of tennis shoes. His current ones have holes in the toes and the sole is worn out. The kids and I ate lunch at McDonalds and then went to Tireman to have a screw removed from my tire and patched up. After that, the kids got haircuts.

Mark came home early - just as Jacob and I were building a Lego racetrack on the floor, all the way around the kitchen table. I heated up some leftover lasagna made earlier in the week and we were off to the preschool Art Show & Open House.

This is the highlight of the year, in my opinion. The teachers spend a lot of time preparing: Kendall's classroom was decorated for spring with kites and blue birds the kids made (and you can look through photos and the children's workbooks); Jacob has 2 classrooms connected together - one was dinosaur land with a huge dinosaur made from lots of boxes, the other room was a rain forest; a large meeting room was transformed into the North and South Poles/Ocean with penguins, polar bears, fish, crabs, and jellyfish creations; the gym is the jungle room with a swamp in the middle with frogs, snakes, turtles and the perimeter of the gym had monkeys, lions, zebras, etc. Of course, there were lots of cookies and punch. Both sets of grandparents came, as always, and we all had a great time. The turn out was great - hundreds of people/kids attended.

Afterwards, Grandma & Grandpa C. came over (with donuts) to see the progress Mark had made on the basement. We visited for a while, which was nice.