A Birthday Visit For Grandma Mary Kay!

Last Thursday was Grandma Mary Kay's birthday and we decided to take the opportunity to visit her at school! First we made some large birthday posters- the kids worked really hard on their writing and decorating. For Daniel, I wrote out "Happy Birthday" on another piece of paper and he copied them onto his poster and did a great job. Then he drew a cake with 4 candles (Grandma is 4 years old, wouldn't you know?) and some presents with bows. He really worked very hard on his poster for her. Annabel has been working really hard on tracing letters, so I dotted her letters out for "Happy Birthday, Grandma" and "by Annabel" and she did an awesome job tracing those letters (I did not help her trace at all- that's all her you see in the pics below!)- everybody was so impressed! She then drew all over her poster. She was super proud of her work and carried it into the building oh-so-proudly. The kids were so excited to visit Grandma at school!

We found Grandma's office just fine on our own, but she wasn't in there, so a nice lady we ran into helped us find the room Grandma was in (all these gals love the little ones, they're all so super nice and so sweet to my kids). AND shocker of all shockers...Annabel literally walked 5 yards ahead of me next to this lady the whole way to Grandma- down a loooong hallway and then a short hallway, the whooooole way. I-I-just don't even have the words to describe my shock! She was just walking along like she owned the place- it was super cute! (Annabel did the same thing on the way back to Grandma's office- walking ahead of us by several yards- got a pic that time!- while Daniel was holding our hands tight!) We found Grandma and the kids had fun showing her their presents!

We had fun back in Grandma's office, snacking, playing, chatting away, visiting with whomever stopped in, and so on, until Grandma's lunch time. On the way out of the building, we stopped to see a few of Grandma's friends and the kids also saw some students blowing bubbles onto giant colorful sheets of paper (they were measuring the bubble circles). They thought this was so cool! The teacher gave Daniel and Annabel each a bottle of bubbles and even let them pick out giant sheets of paper to take home with us to do the same activity (well, except we didn't measure per se, we just traced- but hey, Daniel experimented with lights on/off to determine which was better to see where the bubbles landed and even had his magnifying glass out, too!)- to say my kids were excited about getting these things would be an understatement- they were over the moon! Such lucky kids! See- the staff are always so super nice and sweet to us at Grandma's school! So, of course, we came home, ate lunch super fast and got right to work on our bubble blowing and tracing project. The kids had the most fun!

Daniel and Annabel work hard on their birthday posters for Grandma!

 Brave Annabel walking way ahead of us!

 Bubble blowing experiment at home...just like the middle-school kids!

 Daniel traced a bubble that landed on his hand!

 Grandma, next time Annabel wants to stay for 4 hours!