Grandparent's Day!

Ashleigh was so excited that Grandparent's Day was coming up! She reminded me several times about the date! She called last night to remind us and wanted to remind me to "bring money for the book fair"! How smart was that for the school to have thier book fair AND Grandparent's Day at the same time? The school is brand new this year and can really use lots of things for the entire school, but the book fair is going to help the library with some much needed things! From the looks of things, they should have made a lot of money since there were a lot of Grandparents buying their grandkids books and other things!
For lunch we had chicken nuggets, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, pineapple tidbits and a roll. We also had our choice of milk, chocolate milk or tea (no tea for kids...just adults)! All for the price of $2.25! Sure can't eat for that at McDonald's! Yummy! The kids that didn't have Grandparent's got to eat their lunch in the gym and have a picnic! The kids that DID have Grandparent's didn't have to eat quite so fast and got to leisurely eat their lunch! Of course, most of them were so excited anyway...that it took longer to eat than normal!

They also had pictures for $5.00/each! Now how can you resist that? Of course, I would have taken my own , in fact, I asked the photographer if he would take one for me. He did, kind of relucantly! I did buy one before I even asked him to take the picture so I didn't feel too bad asking him to use my camera as well! When I asked...no one was waiting in line!

After lunch and taking pictures, Ashleigh got to take us to her classroom and show us around! Since she was one of the last ones back, we didn't stay too long but got to see her desk and where she sits! She was very excited to show a couple of her friends the books that Grandma & Grandpa had bought for her! It was so funny to see the interaction! Her teacher spent a few moments talking to us. She was also very proud to tell us that Ashleigh had just moved up in her reading group...she's in level 8 already and after 4 weeks of school, her teacher told us that they expected them to be at level 4! Way to go Ashleigh! Ashleigh has always loved to have you read to her and one of her favorite things to do is to have a "read along book". Of course, her mom and Grandma have always loved to read!!

We had a fun time today and wish we had the opportunity to do it with all of our grandchildren! It's so hard to think that this year Ashleigh is in 1st grade, Allison is in 2nd, Shae is in 3rd...and it won't be long before Justisse and Brian are starting school as well! Before we know it, we'll be attending our first graduation from high school! Man these kids grow FAST!