Our first school Christmas party :)

  There is a good possibility that I might have been just as excited as Kaya for her party today lol Mrs W had her class Christmas party starting at 1 this afternoon and we all had a great time. I like the idea too instead of setting a certain price limit or drawing names that she just had each parent pick up a cheap coloring book, wrap it and write boy or girl on the front. Cut down on figuring out what to do and all the kids would basically get the same type of gift. We made adorable snowman cupcakes (half snowman...chocolate cake, half Cmas sprinkles...white cake due to one of Kaya's classmates not eating chocolate) that came out pretty cute. We also took a couple jugs of juice. We happily donated 48 cupcakes, plates, cups, napkins and two jugs of juice.
    

The teachers donated pizza for all the students, one parent donated her time and supplies so each child could make a cool Christmas tree ornament and then a couple of parents donated candy that went in the goody bags made by the teachers (each child got a new box of crayons, erasers, a pencil etc). The kids had a blast even though a few got upset over the book exchange because they thought they should get back their own books! lol A few parents didn't follow the rules and got expensive books with paint and markers on them etc but in general it went well. Kaya was super excited she got a new book. Of course Kaya's tooth decided to fall out right when they started to eat lol but she happily went to the office with her Daddy and got a cool tooth holder and rejoined the party :)
I LOVE that Steve comes to the parties. Rarely do any Dads ever help (I will say one besides Steve did this time!!) and the boys just love having Steve's attention. He listens to them, talks to them and really played up their cool books. It was nice to see the boys interacting with him. It does Steve good too.

reindeer games ;)

You would think that the party would last all the rest of the day since it started at 1 and school gets out at 2:50 but...the school only allotted from 1 to 2ish for the party and then the kids had to go to their special that day, which was PE. Mrs W told us to go with the kids and have fun watching them.
Oh we had a ball and tried hard to not laugh out loud. You have to picture a gym teacher complete with whistle and 1950s gung ho attitude towards phys ed with 20 kindergarten kids! LOL But she kept her cool well and sat up hula hoops in the middle of the gym. The kids had to pretend to be elves feeding the reindeer (hoops) with special feed (bean bags) after sledding (they use roller things) over to the deer. It was very comical. But the kids did well, even though a few had no attention span at all!!! The gym teacher did introduce herself and tell us that Kaya is a good kid, sweet and always tries. We also discussed her cough she had from her croup/mild asthma so that the gym teacher knew exactly what it was. She knows Kaya has an inhaler etc so it's not a biggie. All in all the gym time was fun and I'm glad we got invited to attend.
The whole day was fun! Love seeing Kaya so excited we helped out. Love hearing all the chatter. I think the neat thing was they split the room by girls and boys and each teacher did a special story for the coloring book swap. It was hilarious to watch the kids practice right and left!