The Bike Parade

The end of April is Fiesta Week in San Antonio (see last years post about Fiesta Week and how we still don't know what we are celebrating) but in honor of fiesta week the preschool had a bike parade.  The kids were so excited about decorating their bikes and riding them around at the school.  Taylor was especially excited because it wasn't on her typical school days and she got to go anyway.  Ethan had been thinking for weeks about how he was going to decorate his bike and throwing around elaborate plans to go along with the cobra that is already on the bike.  Abe had a day off when I was working so I sent him with the kids to go and find supplies.  I hope they know how lucky they are that dad took them instead of mom.  I have no creativity and I know I would have bought a pack of streamers and called it good.  But not Abe!  They decided to go with an American theme and they must have bought out the dollar store of all things red, white and blue.  We are talking flags, streamers, flower necklaces, star shaped sun glasses and the list goes on.  Oh how excited they were.  Ethan is definitely my child and started stressing about what his friends might think of the bike the night before.  I love that boy!

It was fun to be able to spend time watching them with their classes and classmates.  Ethan's class had a wide range of bike riding skills so it was pretty a huge accident waiting to happen as kids went in all directions and looked at their parents rather than where they were going.  Luckily Ethan is really good at jumping off his bike at the first sign of trouble.  Some of the other kids weren't so lucky.

Her little "friend" for the day

Taylor wasn't with her typical class since they only go on Tuesdays and Thursdays so she got to hang out with the kids from the M,W, F class that she had only met back at Rodeo day several months ago. When she walked in one of the boys ran up to her and said "Oh hi Taylor". We were all pretty impressed that he remembered her name and his mom said that he does often talk about Taylor at home. They were pretty cute holding hands as they walked down the hall to head outside. This little boy did seem like the sweetest, calmest 3-year old boy I have seen in a while (unlike the boys in Taylor's class that are either super wired or have no verbal/social skills).

We have felt so blessed to have found this preschool while we were visiting San Antonio last year.  The kids have absolutely loved it and we (I) am sad that last week will be the end of the year.