Zoey's School Open House

This weekend we got to experience our first "open house" at Zoey's preschool. They had a concert (imagine 50+ kids screaming), and then a quick slide show, and then we went to the kids classrooms to see some of the stuff they had been working on. I was brought to tears almost a couple of times. Once because of the singing and seeing Zoey up there and feeling very proud of her. And then another time, because of one of the projects Zoey did that I will describe later. Here is a photo of Zoey and the group. She is on the top row and looking at the camera in this photo...





And here is a picture of Zoey next to her class garden. She planted corn and it is growing in the back!



So the next thing that brought tears to my eyes (which I admit often doesn't take much) but these tears of pride and laughter were quite worthy, I think. It was a project Zoey was making about her mom (Me:) They had paper cutouts and she got to pick the color hair and the dress she wanted them to wear and then the teacher asked her questions about me, and Zoey would answer. Her teacher typed up the answers in first person and put in on the picture. Mine read something like this, "my name is Jill. I don't know how old I am. My favorite food is pizza and my favorite TV show is Grey's Anatomy. My favorite thing to do is play outside with Zoey and Max."

It was funny to see how she views me and then tells another about it. She did a pretty good job! The teacher shared another thing... Zoey is the first one ever to put hair on the arms of the mom, and so the teacher said she had to confess to looking at my arms to see if they were really hairy!! I asked Zoey about it, she didn't really have much to say. I will ask her again when she gets to bring it home. I will take a picture of it and share it with you!!

So the open house signals an almost end to our year. We go to school until mid June here. Summer weather is upon us though so we have been playing a lot outside.

p.s. I don't have hairy arms at all, for any of you who don't know... maybe she mixed me up with her dad momentarily!!!