Yesterday was the annual Harvest Festival at the school. The theme was the Vancouver Winter Olympics, so people dressed up in costumes relating to the Olympics or their home country. Lydia and Aaron went as Olympic torches (the easiest costume I could think of to whip up the night before...) They had international foods available, and games in the classrooms that you could buy tickets to play. A lot of work went into it, and they did a great job! Here Lydia is playing the fishing game. Looks like she caught a big one!
We also participated in a cake walk, and Lydia won a beautiful cake!
Here's Lydia with her friend Olivia:
The closing ceremonies, where they gave out medals for the games and the best costumes:
Obama even made an appearance...
Some recent pictures of Birdie:
I like this one- chomping on the toy fish:
Big blue eyes!
Awwww....
Nobody can get Birdie to smile like Lydia can!
The next few pictures are of a visit to a cemetery where many people who died in the World War II blockade of Leningrad. About half a million people are buried in mass graves here!
Lydia with some other teachers who went with us.
Long rows of mass graves.
On a much, much lighter note, here are some pictures from a special autumn program at Lydia's preschool. It was so fun to see the kids singing and dancing. Unfortunately I didn't get many good pictures.
At the end, the kids all got a carrot. Somehow their teacher made it fun enough to make the whole group of 3-year olds SO excited to eat a carrot!
1 comment:
maybe I should try whole carrots like that! I thought at first they were orange popsicles. :-)
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