First Toad of Spring

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 ~ Sarah Hendrickson ~

We found this toad last year in the window well.  This year when it was getting warmer we kept looking in there.  Then one day we found it in there again.

Daddy climbed down to get him.  When he was getting him the toad pee'd.  I was the first one who held him when Daddy brought him out.  He felt rough.  And on his underpart he felt soft.

The toad kept climbing on my arm and siting there.  It kept making little squeaky noises.

First Phoebe and Silas wanted to look at it.  Then Phoebe decided she wanted to try holding it.

(Below) This is Phoebe's hands holding it and my hand is blocking it from jumping out of her hands.

Then Silas got brave enough to touch it without squealing and running away.

Then Silas got braver and he held it!  I was just helping him a little bit.

And then he got braver and he held it by himself but I put my hands under so it wouldn't fall and get hurt.

Then Silas got BRAVER and he decided he didn't want me to put my hands under his.  He wanted to hold it all by himself.

Then he started to pick the toad up all by himself!  Every time Silas picked it up and held it he got really happy.  But I am not sure the toad was....

Field Day

The second grade classes at Sarah's school had their field day about a week ago.  It was a cloudy afternoon, but the rain held off and they were able to get all of the events in except the tug-of-war before a Tornado Watch was issued for the county we live in, and all the students were quickly ushered off the field and back into the school for safety reasons.

Each student selected 5 events that they wanted to participate in that day.  The events were 35 meter dash, 50 meter dash, egg race, sack race, tire roll, hula-hoop contest, limbo, bean-bag throw, leap frog, and soccer kick.  Everyone watched each event and cheered on the participants.  Popee, Nanee, Silas, Phoebe, Eric and I were all able to go and watch Sarah compete.  She did very well.  She is our SUPER COMPETITIVE  ATHLETIC PRINCESS!  (She enjoys winning just as much as Eric and I!  It is a lot of fun for he and I to watch her compete and win.)

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My events I picked were egg race, bean bag toss. tire roll. leap frog. and hula hooping.

The egg race was my first event.  It was close between me and one of my friends.  I got second place.

My next event was hula hooping.  I am a very good hula hooper.  Everybody started with one hula hoop.  After a while the people that were left had to get two hula hoops and see who could hula hoop the longest with two.

Two hula hoops! I won!

Next up was bean bag toss.  I did not do very well at it.  I only got one bag into the circle.

Silas kept wanting to sit by me.  My friends were adoring Silas. (picture above)

My next event was the tire roll.  I got going pretty fast with my tire.  It was really easy.  I got first place.

The last event I was in was leap frog.  Me and my partner did not do very well.  We had to race against boys and girls.

Done with my last event!

I had a good field day.  I got two first place ribbons, and one second place ribbon.  And, I got one ribbon that was a participation ribbon for field day.

My Birthday Guy

Last Friday was Eric's birthday.  After school and work we quickly celebrated with some "Happy Birthdays", presents, and hugs.  Then Eric and Sarah went to softball practice, a storm rolled into town, softball practice got out early, they came home and picked the rest of us up and we quickly drove through Burger King for some birthday fast food dinner while we drove to Popee and Nanee's house.  Whew!

Eric was actually just dropping us all off at Popee and Nanee's house because he was going to spend the weekend with his Grandma in Olpe.  But, before he could head to her house we surprised him with one of his favorite kinds of cake... a Dairy Queen ice cream cake!

He was happy!  We sang.  He blew out the candles.  I made him do it again because I missed the picture the first time, and then we all ate cake.  Yum!

Happy Birthday to my main squeeze!  You are my Knight.  My light in the dark, my hottie, my Super Man, my happy place.  I love you soooooo-ooooo-oo much.  And, these three cutie-pies of ours think you hung the moon.  You are our favorite and our best!  Thank you for EVERYTHING you do for each one of us everyday.

Cowtown Field Trip

Sarah's class got to go on a field trip a couple weeks ago to Cowtown.  Cowtown is a living history museum where you get to experience life as it was in the 1870's.  You are surrounded by the sights, sounds, and activities that were common to a Midwestern cattle town.  

To learn more or to plan your visit to Cowtown, click on the (title) link below...

OLD COWTOWN MUSEUM ~ Wichita, KS

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This is my class.

We got to take turns riding on the horse carriage.  It was fun.

We got to turn butter.  It splashed some though.

Still turning butter.

The boys were dancing.  I do not know why though.

This is the living room.  The kids were not allowed in it back then.  Only if they were being quiet.  And not interrupting.  If someone told a story that had happened before you couldn't talk and say that's not right. (No interrupting.)

They taught us how ladies and gentlemen walked down the street.  Ladies on the inside.  Gentlemen on the outside.  They did that because they thought ladies were too fragile.  Then we practiced walking down the street.

This is when we got to play catch with sticks and a hoop.  We each had two sticks and when you went to throw it to someone you hold them like an X, then you just whoosh it apart.  When you whooshed it apart, the hoop flew to the other person and then the other person tried to catch it on their sticks.

Still playing catch. We had a good time.

I really liked the this field trip.