Eli's PreK-4 Easter Egg Hunt

The Thursday before school got out for Easter break, Eli's class had their annual Easter egg hunt. I had to work that day, but I was able to sneak away for a couple of hours to go watch Eli and his friends hunt for eggs. I couldn't leave work until 10:30 that day so I was a little late getting to the house where they were hunting eggs. I got there right after they snapped the group picture of both of the PreK-4 classes. Eli was so excited to see me (always makes me so happy as a Mommy when I hear that). Then he told me that I had gotten there at the "puh-fect" (still working on those r's in speech..haha) time because they were just walking down to go hunt for all the Easter eggs. I snapped a quick picture of him and one of his best friends, Charlie, and then they took off!

People tell me all the time that Eli has such a sweet, giving heart towards other children. That always makes me so proud as a Mommy. I love that he is always thinking of others and how he can help them. During the Easter egg hunt, I got to witness this firsthand. Eli found a golden egg and he was so excited. Then he found another one right after finding the first one. Instead of putting it in his basket and searching for more, he immediately said, "I've got to go give this golden egg to Logan because he doesn't have one." He went and found his best friend and gave him his second golden egg. Sweet boys!

After all the eggs had been found, I took a few pictures of Eli with all his school friends. These kids are all so super sweet! 

I was trying to get a picture of me and Eli by the pretty azaleas when one of his classmates came up to me and got in our picture. He started cheesing at the camera and then looked at me and said, "On the count of three, say Cowabunga!" I cracked up laughing! So this is our picture with Michael and we're saying "Cowabunga!" 

All the kids went to the front porch and ate a quick lunch together. I was able to get another picture of Eli with his two best friends, Hannah and Logan. Makes my heart smile when I see these precious kiddos. 

Of course, Diane and I had to get one of us with our sweeties too. 

It was such a fun Easter egg hunt. The weather was beautiful, the house was gorgeous, and the kids had a blast! All in all, it was a perfect day :)

Eli's 1st Field Trip

During the middle of October, Eli's class at his school went on their first field trip of the year to the pumpkin patch. Eli was so excited about going mostly because he was going to be able to ride on a school bus for the first time. Since it was my little boy's first field trip experience, Momma had to go :) I took off work that morning so I could go and experience it with him...okay, okay, I also wanted to make sure I documented it for the blog :) I'm a blogger at heart, what can I say?

Eli's class boarded the bus and while we were waiting for the other three year old class to take their seats, I took some pictures of my little man. His teacher went over some of the bus rules with the kids, and then off we went to the pumpkin patch!

Momma and Eli on our first school field trip

We arrived at the pumpkin patch and were greeted with pumpkins galore! They had pumpkins of every size just waiting for someone to take home. 

Since there were two classes of three year olds, each group rotated to different stations for some fun pumpkin activities. Our first station was the Discovery Center where the kids got to see, smell, and touch a pumpkin as the lady carved it. She showed them the inside with all the pulp and seeds and got lots of "Eww!" comments from the kids. Then she gave them each a small piece of the pumpkin to look at, smell, and touch. Eli must have been hungry because he kept asking to eat his piece.

Diane, Hannah's mom, couldn't get off for the field trip so I took some pictures of Hannah and sent them to Diane while we were at the pumpkin patch. Hannah was having a great time and I wanted Diane to see that so she wouldn't worry. Hannah's class went to the puppet show first and they all seemed to love it!

Then it was Eli's class's turn for the puppet show. Before the show, one of the girls there read the kids an ABC book about fall and gave them pumpkin cookies to eat during the story. Those kids gobbled those cookies up so quickly! She also went around and asked each kid their name. Most kids just stuck with their first name, but mine decided to give her all three of his names :) 

After the puppet show, it was time for the kids to go pick a pumpkin to decorate with stickers and make a funny face. They all loved this part!

Eli with his silly pumpkin :)

Mrs. Paige wanted to get some pictures of all the kids in her class, so we went over to the photo booth area to take some pictures. 

After the individual shots of the kids, they attempted to get a group shot...it took several attempts, but I think they eventually got a good one of all the kids actually looking at the camera.

Before we left, Eli and Hannah got a picture together :) These two have really bonded this year and it's so sweet to watch them play together. 

We all loaded on the bus to head back to school and on the way back, Eli's friend Logan rode with us on our seat. Eli loves to play with Logan at school and comes home and talks about him a lot. Evidently, they're good buddies! It's been lots of fun watching Eli make friends this year. I hope that these friends are ones he'll keep for a long, long time!