Field Days, Memorial Day, Vents and Hide and Seek

So much to write about and update here. Where to start, where to start. I supposed that I will go in the order that things are listed in the title of this here blog.

Boo had her field day last Thursday. It was great to get to go and watch her do the various "events" that were going on. It made me remember what it was like when I was doing field days in school. It seems like our field days were a bit different though. We had more races and events that we could choose to enter, whereas Boo just did everything as a class, and there were fewer races. I remember doing things like the dizzy bat race, the wheelbarrow race, a dress-up race and just regular races such as the 50, 60, 70, and 80 yard dash. Boo had a sack race, a chase and tag relay, some class races, a slip-and-slide and some inflatable slides. Regardless of the differences, though she had a good time doing it all, and I enjoyed watching her.

Here are a few pictures of my fourth grade field day (we couldn't come up with any from second grade like Boo):

And one of Boo and her teacher, Mrs. Rushing, and me and my second grade teacher, Mrs. Jones:

Memorial Day was our next thing. Started it off by going to The Woodlands for a Texas Conference wide youth lock-in. Went pretty well, but could use a little tweaking for the future. We followed that up with a nice family game of baseball after I got home and got to rest a little bit. It was fun to see Puck and Little Bull "playing" baseball like the big kids. Little Bull already knows how to run the bases and even saw a need to slide into home at one point.

Tonight we had a couple of things that went on. As the female Wild Things were cleaning their room, and I was helping the male Wild Thing  pick up balls in his room, I noticed I could hear Puck through the vents in the floor. So I started calling her. Moma Wild Thing told her where I was calling her from, so she got down on the floor to talk to me. The first thing she wanted to know was how I got in the vents. A four year old's concept of how things like that work is so awesome.

And finally we played a little hide and seek tonight in the house. I was once again reminded that my Wild Things don't always really "seek" when it comes to finding things. I was hiding in Little Bull's room in his closet, and heard all three of them come in there a couple of times to look, but since I wasn't right there just standing in the middle of the room waiting to be found, they decided that I wasn't in that room. It wasn't until a little while later that it dawned on them to open the closet. My hope is that one of these days, they will be able to find things that are not in the middle of a barren floor with nothing around them. We shall see.

Well I believe that is enough for now.

Peace and Love y'all.