Thursday, May 13, 2010

The Art Gallery


Since preschool started, I have gotten in trouble almost weekly for throwing away precious works of art. Molly comes home with many projects, sometimes 3 or 4 in one day, and it's impossible to keep everything, mean as that sounds. Sometimes I could trash things discreetly, but other times I inadvertently left artwork on the top of trash instead of squishing it down where she couldn't see, which led to trouble. The straw that broke the camel's back was when I ripped a corner off of one of her drawings (it was a copied picture of a house that she had traced - it didn't look that special to me) to use for something and put the rest of the picture in the recycle trash, right on top. The next morning she saw it in there, ripped, and shouted "WHAT ON EARTH!!" and burst into tears. Definitely not one of my prouder parenting moments. I never fully admitted to it being me, but I'm pretty sure she knew. Anyway, we now have this lovely art gallery to hang all works of art on. When it gets too full, Molly is responsible for choosing what goes in the trash and what stays, so hopefully I'll stay out of trouble. We'll see.

Mother's Day Tea

All the moms were invited to the preschool for a celebration the Thursday before Mother's Day. They made these rockin' hats for us (Claire has already claimed ownership of mine) and the highlight was the pictures they drew of their moms and the questions they answered. The pictures didn't have the kids names on them so we could guess which one was of us. Molly can't keep a secret so she told me which was was hers, although I would have known anyway because her answers were pretty accurate, except my age. The highlight was one kid who wrote that "My mom looks prettiest when... she goes out to the bar."


Baby Leo

My sister Sarah just had a darling baby boy about a month ago. This is Molly the Transformer holding him for the first time, and Spiderman Max trying to assist.

Preschool Science Night

Molly's preschool had a Science Night last week that was pretty awesome. They had six or seven different rooms set up with tons of different experiments in each. The kids loved it (so did Chris and I) and I think we are so lucky to have found this preschool!

This is Molly with her teacher, Ms. Nancy, in the dry ice room. We spent longer in this room than in any other, the kids were very impressed!





Claire's favorite thing to do was to stick her face in this giant blower.



Molly loved the classic Diet Coke/Mentos explosion.



Chris's Live Burn

Chris is finishing up his classes for his Firefighter 1 and 2 certification, and part of it is that they get to work a live fire. The kids and I got to come watch, and they were pretty impressed. We determined the only way to tell Chris apart from the others when he had his mask on is that he was the tallest of the group. Molly really latched on to that, and I think it made her more comfortable when Chris would go inside to be able to watch for him to come back out.