Sydney Fuller

Guarantee?

Sydney got new underwear! Yeah. Worth a blog post? Sure. Check out the package.

Gotta love the stamp in the lower right. Its like a challenge to me. These underwear will NOT prevent me from giving Sydney a wedgie when and where I desire.

Sunflower Farm

There was no school today but the girls couldn't stand the thought of not seeing their new school friends. So we decided to join a bunch of kids at Sunflower Farm for a fun play day together. This farm is always a favorite of ours and we haven't been in a while so it sounded like a fun time. The girls went straight to the zip line being the adventurist that they are.

Next we met up with a bunch of friends on the big haystack. They played here for a good hour. I don't really get the lure of the haystack but I could definitely be over the age limit on this one.

Next up, the house of corn. What's that? Just what it sounds like. A small house filled with corn. This is usually a big hit of the littler ones as it is one step up from a cool sandbox. The big girls did a great job of playing along with Kayla on this one.

Mom was feeling a little lazy at this point in the day so we mosied on over to the tire swing. Mom definitely got her workout in on that one. My turn, push higher, again......

This place has the coolest tree house configuration ever. They have lots of bridges, platforms, slides, etc., all built around the huge cottonwood trees on the property.

Our last stop of the day was to the pony rides. I am secretly hoping my kids gain a love of horses so I have someone to take lessons with in a few years. Gotta start little.

We had perfect fall weather for our adventure today. It was great of our classmates to invite us to the play time. We even got to pick out our own pumpkins on the way out. Always a fun time at Sunflower Farm.

Nomad Party

In History class, Sydney is learning about the Nomads and their lifestyle. One of the best ways for a kid to learn is by doing so thats what her teacher did for these kids. We got the kids all dressed up in the latest Nomad attire and sent them out on a hunt for a date source, (i.e. Drinking fountain.) Their goal of the day was to find three different water sources. They also had to carry all their belongings on their backs just like the Nomad. Once their hike was over they came back to the room to enjoy a typical Nomad dinner and hear stories of the lifestyle. The dinner consisted of a lot of goat products; goat milk, goat cheese, cheese curds, olives, pita bread and honey. The cheese curds were a huge success to my surprise. The goat milk and cheese, not so much.

Fiske Planetarium

Today was our first third grade field trip of the school year. Our trip today would be to the Fiske Planetarium located in the midst of the CU Campus in Boulder. The entryway had a few experiments and cool telescopes for the kids to check out. The coolest thing here was this cool display which projected different planets just floating in this space. There were monitors all around it spouting cool facts about the planet. You actually learned a lot of cool facts. The kids however, were more interested in this telescope.

Once we entered the planetarium the show was pretty good. The kids just finished a science unit on the moon so our trip would spend about half our time learning about the moon. Again, I learned tons and came away for with new appreciation for our big ball of cheese up in the sky. The kids were on fire and were able to answer everything our grad student tried to stump them with. I think he was impressed with our gang too. We of course then had some star gazing and constellation time.

Once our time was done the kids ran outside, and before we could stop them, they decided it was time to climb the planetarium building. Granted it does beg to be climbed. It was a little embarrassing. At least it was a great photo op.

As we were heading for the cars I had Sydney pose with the CU campus as a great backdrop. We just might be regulars here in another 10 years. Who knows?