Off to the Farm

Mimi had her first field trip today!

It was to the farm with her preschool class...

She started the morning in her cowgirl boots from Aunt Kate, 

roping her dogs in the living room with an old tie of Ben's.

This little boy got to come too.

Of course we had to look the part:

After these pics then it was off to the farm.

The build up was a little huge in my head...Mimi's FIRST field trip! My first time getting to be mom, not teacher! I wanted to be such an expert. But, as we know, pride comes before the fall...

We may have shown up a few minutes late.

I may have been the only one who thought she could handle and infant and preschooler.

The teacher may have had to help me readjust Bode in the Beco Baby carrier that I put on in a hurry in the parking lot because it may have been cutting off circulation in his leg.

I may have wrongly predicted the weather had may have underdressed myself and the kids (athough we weren't cold at all...I kept checking the kids and I was toasty carrying our little heater Bode, but several moms and teachers may have kept offering me clothes and blankets. A Russian mom in the class may have told me that she was cold just looking at me in her broken english. I may have felt like either crying or smacking her). 

I may have had to endure sideways smirks and side comments from other moms about how they were SO GLAD that they didn't bring their other kids.

Mimi may have been a little unstable in her cute cowgirl boots. 

I may have wished to be anywhere else in the world then on that farm on one or more points in the day...

BUT

 Bode slept the whole time in his carrier (after the circulation fiasco) and Mimi had a great time. We picked LOTS of vegetables and she got to run around with her new friends. She is a happy-go-lucky girl :) And she really liked being a "cowgirl" at the farm. So it was all good. And now we can just remember the trip from these cute pictures.

Remember my post about her "friend" hitting her? This is that friend.

Mimi loves her. Coincidentally, she is being moved to another class. Because of hitting.

But I did feel for her mom. Life and kids are messy. One day your kid's the "hitter" in the class. The next day you're the mom who under-dressed your family on a field trip.  We all have been there or will be there.

Here's my sweet farmer girl...

This is Mimi and her new BFF Prugh ('Pru')

Just another preschool milestone down.

Now off to go make vegetable soup with our bounty.

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