Preschool round-up

Friday Oliver had his preschool round-up/orientation in the afternoon. I worked a half a day and picked him up from daycare at 11:30. The good thing about sending him to preschool in the fall and one of the main reasons we chose to send him was because he will be there with 3 of his friend from daycare. When I went to pick him up all the kids were so excited, jumping for joy, to go to preschool.

When we got there he was shy as always burying his head in my leg and covering his face with his hands. We then found one of his friends playing with blocks so Oliver joined in and then the other 2 did too so all 4 friends were playing together again. 

All the parents then went to another room where the principal could speak to us and answer any questions and then we just left. All the parents peaked in the preschool room and all the kids were having fun playing and there wasn't any crying. 

When school got out at 3:30, I went to pick him up again and here's the highlights he told me of the day:

1. The have a standing toilet that when you flush it the water comes down to the drain (urinal)

2. They have a drinking fountain that he is tall enough to reach.

3. There is a box full of sand and he already called dibs on a dump truck.

4. There is a circle slide to go down outside and tricycles to ride. 

5. They got to eat some cracker and drink some milk for a snack.

6. They have lockers to put you "stuff" in.

7. He's going to love riding the school bus as he threw a tantrum again that I wouldn't let him ride it home Friday. 

He wasn't very talkative on the way home and after just a few minutes I looked back and found a warn out sleeping boy. 

He still keeps talking about going to preschool everyday with excitement so hopefully that continues until this Fall when he goes Monday -Thursday full days. 

Easter

We celebrated many Easter's this year and even hosted one. It started 2 weeks ago when my sister and her family came home to my parent's house. Oliver had fun as he always does with his cousins. 

Then it was time for his first of 3 Easter egg hunts. He did well trying to find his 10 eggs filled with money for his dinosaur bank. 

I had taken off of work Wednesday through Friday as I had to take Oliver to Iowa City on Wednesday for a check-up then clean the house to get ready for hosting. He's getting to be a big boy sitting in the chair at the ENT doctor. It was a long wait there but everything turned out good and he continues to do well. 

Since I had time off, I looked a lot at Pinterest and found that everyone was doing the shaving cream method of dyeing eggs this year. Instead of shaving cream though I used cool whip because I didn't want the eggs to taste like shaving cream as eggs are very porous. We ended up leaving the eggs covered in the mixture overnight in the fridge to help the color set then washed them off.

Oliver preferred the normal way of dyeing eggs. He had a Jammies Party at daycare that day so he wore his new Thomas the Train PJ's he got for Easter from Grandpa Doerschery and Grandma Sandy.

He didn't like using a spoon or the wire thing to get the eggs out and threw a tantrum when I wanted to take a picture of his green hands because he just wanted to wash it off. Little did we know that they would stay that green even after washing them.  

Our finished eggs 

 

We hosted the Peterman Easter on Saturday when we also celebrated our family Easter as we were headed down south on Sunday. Oliver had received many little presents from Grandma Shirley and Grandpa Chuck but his favorite was this airplane. 

A pro at the hunt now, he took off running for the eggs.  

Look at all those eggs! 

It was a beautiful weekend, so warm we spent most of the afternoon outside. 

Sunday as I said we headed south to celebrate with my family. We started in Long Grove for a Doerscher celebration brunch so my Grandpa could join all of the rest of us. I think the highlight for Oliver though was that it was across from a fire station and that there was a fire so he got to see all the firemen/women drive away in the firetrucks with their lights and sirens on. There was also a park and it was beautiful again, dare I say too warm for the way we were dressed. We left our house Sunday and it was raining and 52 degrees so the upper 70's-80's was warm and lovely!

We headed in to Great Billie's for another Easter egg hunt. This years picture of all the great-grand kids with Grandma minus quite a few of them. 

Showing Great Billie the eggs he found 

It was a great Easter this year as we are very blessed to have so much family to spend time with.

Gone Fishing

Grandpa Chuck and Grandma Shirley took Oliver fishing yesterday. Oliver has been looking forward to this day since before Thanksgiving time and even asked Santa for a fishing pole. We told him all winter long that once the snow melted then he could go fishing and let me tell you, he didn't ever forget that. During the winter, when his snowman was melting he said "Mommy pretty soon I can go fishing, my snowman is melting." 

Oliver was so excited Tuesday night the minute I picked him up from Daycare and told him he was going to Grandpa Chuck's tomorrow to go fishing. He grabbed his fishing pole and put it next to the door so he would remember to take it. 

They took him to a pond near Elkader after going and getting some worms.

Waiting as Grandpa put the worm on the hook. Last night when Oliver was telling me about the worms he said he didn't touch them because they were "moving" and the "snake wouldn't stay flat." We had to find some pictures of snake and worms last night for him to see the difference in them.  

Grandma said that Oliver tried casting the line into the water but it got stuck in the weeds so Grandpa was better at it.  

Waiting patiently for the fish to bite. They never did bite though as Oliver said "they were still sleeping." He got cold fast so they went home. Oliver said today that he wants to do it again when the fish are awake.