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| Saturday was the 2nd annual West School Barnes and Noble book and art fair to raise money for our service club. I selected kdg, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade art for display... the sculptures (both felt and paper mache') looked awesome in the windows! |
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| For this event, teachers and students volunteer to read off and on all day in the story area- I read Art and Max and Guess How Much I Love You... Kieran was a bit of a distraction as he would prefer to be in charge and read to the kids rather than listen to mommy ;) |
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| Kindergarten Kandinsky circles. |
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| 3rd grade pop art monster prints hanging in the children's section. |
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| Of course the first item on Kieran's agenda was to play trains- but eventually Rick was able to lure him away from Thomas and the gang long enough to make a cute little Valentine craft. |
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| Hard at work ;) |
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| His B&B Valentine is hanging on the fridge now ;) |
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| Here, Kieran is "reading" a Curious George story to this little girl- she thought he was pretty funny ;) |
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| After story time, we had lunch out at Love Sushi- Kieran was a big fan of Rick's teriyaki chicken and rice- he also ate a california roll and some tempura veggies... mmmm! |
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| After it cooled a little, Kieran really liked the tea too. |
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| The best part of the meal was the little orange dessert with a cat face- he carried this around all afternoon until it finally fell apart ;) |
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| After lunch, Rick headed back home to do some cleaning and Kieran and I went to my school to do some painting in preparation for his Valentine's party this Tuesday. |
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| Artist in action! |
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| Mixing colors... |
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| Stamping... |
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| Preparing the stamp... |
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| A finished painting... |
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| After the paint dried I cut each poster-board into hearts that Kieran will pass out for his Valentine's cards. |
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| A finished Valentine with heart crayon attached :) |
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| One of Kieran's favorite pass times in my classroom is to "play" with my beta. |
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| We also made Kieran's V-day mailbox- a monster... of course! Kieran helped to paint the green base coat and sponge on the yellow and gold texture- he loves putting mail in it's mouth :) |
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| When we got home Kieran had a package from Auntie Joyce waiting for him- a Dinosaur Train book and some yummy candy- Kieran's favorite? The GIANT chocolate "K"- he downed that in minutes! |
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| Rick and I went out last night to celebrate V-day a bit early and NeNe Orange came over to hang out with Kieran. I wore a vintage 60's dress- probably a bit over dressed for 44 Stone and East Side Tavern and a bit under dressed for the sub-freezing temps... but it's fun to get gussied up every now and again :) |
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| After all these years, we are still very much in love and so happy to be each other's valentine's. |
