Chilly Friday!

It’s cold outside today, but that’s didn’t stop us from having a blast on this fun Friday! All of our friends (except Sophie, who is still in Boston until Monday) met outside on the playground (Ancel, Gage, Hunter, Olive, Wynn, Clara, and Noah.) We were glad to see Gage roaming around and playing this morning. We’re thinking he’s enjoying being in his new class with his new friends!

                We went inside for snack and ate the pumpkin seeds that came out of the pumpkin we carved yesterday! Arielle took them home last night and baked them with cinnamon, brown sugar and nutmeg. Yum! Some friends made funny faces when taking their first bite and some thought they were absolutely delicious. We also ate some bananas and watermelon, and went over the calendar, which included a discussion about this weekend and how Cherokee will be heading off on a cruise tomorrow and visiting beautiful Mexico! How fun! We sure will miss her, especially since we’ll be partying on her birthday (which is Halloween!) We’ll see her next Friday, though, and have fun with Cate and Sarah while she’s gone.

                Circle time was fun with a large circle of seven kids. Clara sat in Arielle’s lap and we all sang the hello song, followed by twinkle, twinkle (since our shape of the day is star.) Then we talked about stars, which has shown to be the most interesting shape to the sprouts so far! They gazed up at the star flash cards in amazement and enjoyed touching sea stars and star-shaped toys. Then our frog puppet gave everybody kisses, reminded them that he loves each and every one of them, and that we are all super special. They love that part of circle time. Then he told them to head to the deck, and they jumped to their feet!

                We took the sea stars out on the deck with us, but Cherokee was the one who was the most interested with them out there. J Noah went straight for the balls, Ancel and Olive rode bikes, Clara open and shut the playhouse door (with a huge smile on her face,) Wynn climbed to the top of the playhouse, Gage explored the deck toys, and Hunter cuddled with Cherokee. After a while our friends switched activities, except Noah, who was now bouncing the balls around the deck (future ball player?) J Clara played with the bikes, Gage sat back and happily observed his friends (and did a little bit of cute dancing,) Wynn was fascinated with a toy motorcycle, and Olive, Hunter, and Ancel all gathered around the water table (it was a little too cold out for water play so they played with toys inside the empty table.) Then the toddlers arrived on the deck to carve their pumpkin! It was tons of fun until we started feeling a little too chilly and then headed back inside to warm up before eating lunch.

                Lunch was super messy, but went very smoothly. Our friends who were finished early read books and played with toy animals while waiting to have their diaper changed and their friends finish eating. When everybody was changed and fed, they headed to the other side of the classroom for nap and relaxed on their nap mat.

                After nap Gage is planning to go home with his Daddy and start his weekend early. We will attempt to paint on paper star cut-outs with water color and paint small pumpkins with tempra paint. We’ll see how successful we are at accomplishing both activities! We’ll spend a little bit more time inside due to the chilly weather, but we all know we’ve gotta get used to it soon! Have a great weekend!