worrell wanderings: August 2012

kindergarten {the redshirt year}

August 27, 2012- The first day of Kindergarten was a bit easier to cope with this year- for all of us. We decided very early last year that since Pecos had an August birthday and was nearly 18 months younger than some of the students, that another year would be best. He was excited to go back to school and eager to make new friends.

We're happy with our decision to give him another year with kids that are closer in age to have fun in Kindergarten. This is socially referred to as academic redshirting. We call it common sense.

Pecos and Mrs. Randle on meet the teacher night.

A special treat from Mrs. Randle on meet the teacher night.

We are so fortunate that Pecos is in a class with so many kids that he knows from Pre-K, church and t-ball. He even ended up sharing a desk with his best bud, Dawson.

Dropping him off on the first day of school.

Pecos and Dawson...hope they don't get into trouble together. Dawson is right next to Pecos at the end of the alphabet so unless other 'W' kids enroll in Harper school they'll still be sitting together at graduation in 2025. He is such a great kid from a sweet family so I couldn't be any happier about that.

Here's where his backpack will hang for the year.

Before the bell rang to start the day the kids were all doing puzzles together on the rug.

Brazos thought he should also be in Kindergarten.

But Mrs. Randle said we couldn't stay, so Pecos gave us a hug and we were on our way. {With just a few tears shed by me.}

fair = fun

August 2012- Oh the Gillespie County Fair. It has come and gone once again. And this year I was finally victorious in my quest for a trophy!

I made quite a few canned goods to enter:

Pecos helped with most of them but I'm pretty sure mashing the strawberries for jam was his favorite task.

I didn't get quite the recognition for my efforts as I expected, but that's about par for the course when it comes to me and the canned goods division there.

Things went much better for me in baked goods.

Pecos did a little better with his entries in baked goods.

He had a few entries for the art division too.

The boys visited Oma in the baked goods and inspected some of the entries.

Some of which needed to be sampled.

And then hit the carnival for a few games and rides.

It was really funny to see Casey trying to get his legs to fit in this airplane ride!

Pecos joined Oma to ride in the parade.

The rest of us were spectators.

See you next year!

the quest has ended

August 2012- The quest for a trophy at the Gillespie County Fair has ended! I am finally victorious {for my own efforts}! I won with baked goods for a Lemon Poppy Seed Zucchini bread. And the trophy was donated by Oma- how perfect since she's been my biggest cheerleader and coach on this quest.

But I'm still after one for canned goods and I'm going to need something better than jelly and jam to win it with. Perhaps I'll have to attempt a vegetable garden next year...

BIRD-ay party

August 2012- Pecos is really into Angry Birds, but I guess most kids aged 6-10 are {and some adults!}. He kind of went back and forth on several birthday party ideas but finally settled on this one. Thank goodness he did because I'd started collecting ideas for it several months earlier.

I really was hoping he'd want to have it at our house because I had soooooooo many great decorating and party game ideas. {I tend to go overboard with birthday parties in case you haven't noticed}. But he wanted to play laser tag at the arcade in Kerrville. It really is better than having a party outside in August in Texas; unless of course the party is at a place whose air conditioner goes out the day of your party.

And he really wanted to do his birthday party at the time of his birthday even though it was the week before school started. Which is probably best because it may have been a month before we would have been able to have it.

The kids receiving instructions on laser tag.

Goody bags!

The loot that went into the goody bags!

This is Pecos' sweet friend from kindergarten. She sat at this game machine that was so simple- push a button, a ball drops and lands in a hole with a number on it. The number is how many tickets you win. She was a master and won at least a thousand tickets on it. She would get so excited and just kept feeding the game tokens and it would spit out tickets in return. It was like watching an old lady at a slot machine in Vegas! She's gonna win some slot tournaments one day I'm sure!