Revolutionary War Days

This year, instead of our annual trip to Dollinger's for Civil War Days, we decided to check out the fairly new Revolutionary War Days instead. We did this partly because I prefer the Revolutionary time period and partly because Tom was going to be there. Thomas Jefferson. We stopped by to catch him giving a great talk in the barn (even though you know he hates giving speeches) and even got to take our picture with him.

Then we headed off to the battle. The Revolutionary Battle (in only it's second year) was quite a bit smaller than the Civil War battle (like way smaller) but it was still a very interesting demonstration.

Wyatt is not really sure what it is that we dragged him to watch.

Noah has the most sensitive ears, so he claimed the earmuffs.

I think Charlotte just realized how over-dressed she was for the occasion.

The Redcoats inexplicably lost this battle. They had at least three times the numbers, so that was a real shame.

 Oh, I guess climbing in this pile of wood shavings was a bit more interesting for the younger kids.

Giving a little gun demonstration. They really interacted with the crowd - asking us if we had any questions or comments, which I assume was because the crowd was also quite small.

Another demonstration showing us how they would train the horses to be ready for battle

And of course a cannon demonstration

Noah seemed curious about the battle again this year

On to a little more of the fun stuff. Climbing tractors.

Climbing in the seed bin

Our usual, apple picture from the farm

And playing in the little houses

Charlotte also stumbled upon these cute little bunnies

Curious George Comes For a Visit

Noah's Kindergarten class does a really fun 'get to know me' activity. One week of the school year you are the class Star of the Week. The weekend before your week, you put together a poster board all about your family. Here is what we came up with:

On Monday of your week, you drop off your poster to hang in the classroom and you get to bring home Curious George and a journal. During his weeklong stay, you take pictures of your activities together and then write about his visit in the journal. Here is Curious George having just arrived in our home.



First things first, we had an indoor picnic with him. He chose to eat a banana.

The next day we took Curious George to the pumpkin patch (see prior post) and he joined us for Noah's favorite pasta dinner.

On Wednesday we had dentist appointments scheduled, so Curious George got to tag along.

Later that day, Curious George joined us for Wyatt's Park District t-ball class

On our last night with George, we took him along to get Noah a haircut since Picture Day was the following day.

He was very patient and he was rewarded with a root beer lollipop.

For our final activity, Noah and George got to watch a movie (Curious George of course) and enjoyed some popcorn

We had a blast including George in our busy week and Noah really enjoyed this special activity. One day he also got to bring an item from home to do a secret show-and-tell. He selected a wax hippo from the zoo and gave clues such as "I am made of wax", "I am from the zoo", and "My name starts with an H." A couple kids were able to successfully guess what his object was. And here are the journal pages that we added to his class book.