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Click the photo above for the slideshow. Today Nadia and I were invited to the 3rd grade picnic field trip. We took our lunch and met the kids at the school. There is a very big, nice park behind the school, just a short walk away. Nadia loves to check things out and did her usual thing of walking round and round exploring. The little girls wanted her to play on the slides with them, but Nadia really wasn’t interested. She got in the toddler swing a couple times, but didn’t want to stay in there. She wanted to, “WALK! WALK!”

One little girl came up and said, “Whose your kid?” And I pointed to Nadia. She said, “Then why are you hanging out with the 3rd graders?” I told her that we came to see our friend A’Jani because I was his mentor. She said, “I want you to be my mentor too, so that I can have a friend come see me.”

I had to sort out a cookie dispute, but it all worked out. One girl saved her cookies and then close to the end she opened her mini chips ahoy and gave Nadia the first one. All of a sudden the screaming started, “I want one of those. Give me one of those!” I thought one kid was going to try and grab Nadia’s so I said, “Okay listen up. That is not the polite way to talk to your friends. Ask nicely and she may give you a cookie, but don’t yell and scream about it. She choose to save her dessert.” They all stopped to think about it and then asked the girl politely. She shared with them and then gave Nadia 3 more which led to more 8 year old drama. But everyone was polite and I complemented them all on sharing.

The funniest thing was when they all started putting sunscreen on at 11:45 and the picnic had been going on for 2 hours and was about to end. Gotta love it!

Nadia and A’Jani.

The girls and the abacus.

Nadia searching for treasures.

The girls going through the sticks.

It was so windy!

Eating a cookie after a hard morning’s play.

Let me start by saying that Nadia L-O-V-E-S classic rock. She will get in her car seat and jam the day away. Here is the conversation that entertained me yesterday. We were getting out of the car at the store and even though the music had stopped Nadia was still dancing in the back.

Mike opened the door and said, “Look at you boogie.”

Nadia – points at nose.

Mike, “Not booger, boogie.”

Nadia – points at nose.

Mike, “Boogie is like dancing. A booger is in your nose.”

Louanne – does a little boogie for Nadia. “Dancing. Boogie.”

Nadia does a little boogie in Mikes arms. THEN points at her nose.

The conversation went on from there and then Nadia got it that Boogie meant Dance. She is too funny!

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Saturday the company Mike works for had their first annual family picnic and we had a great time. They had a ton of stuff for everyone to do. Nadia had a great time running all over the place. Randy was here from Colorado, so I got a couple shots of him with Nadia.

Here is Nadia with one of the other kids. I thought this photo was so cute!

Today Nadia and I went up to the school to join the little boy I mentor for Field Day. He won 3rd place in the 50 yard dash and 2nd place in the hurdles. Their class took 3rd place in the class relays. The photo above is Nadia with his whole class and they are all screaming NADIA!! During all the field day events Nadia did her usual thing which is to stare intently and try to figure out what was going on. They had music blasting for the kids and as the songs would end she would say “All done.” Then every couple of songs they would stop to make announcements and she would say, “More song” and clap her hands. Way cute!

The 3rd grade boys were just in LOVE with Nadia. The group started with 2 boys and grew to the whole crew below. They were asking Nadia all kinds of questions and asking her to say words, which she would repeat and they would laugh hysterically. One time near the beginning they got all up in her face and I could see that she was getting a little nervous said, “Hey, stay back and don’t get all in her face.” From there on out she had a ‘bodyguard’. So anytime the boys got to rambunctious he would say, “Hey. BACK UP. Don’t crowd her!” I was cracking up and had to snap a couple of photos.

During their break time their teacher read them a story in the classroom and Nadia was listening for a bit and then started pointing to things in the room and the kids were all laughing. She would say, “Wa wa. Ball. Red.” and so on. One of the children was supposed to be making a fish craft and he kept saying fish and then Nadia heard him and started going “FISH, FISH”. So the teacher paused in the story and asked if Nadia wanted a fish to color and I said no, she thinks he’s talking about goldfish. So the teacher jumped up and opened her cabinet and pulled out a snack bag of goldfish. The kids started to “ohhh and ahhh” and said that was the ‘special stash’ and you had to be good to get those. After the break Nadia and I joined the kids for lunch and then headed home for naptime.

Here she is with the little boy that I mentor.