If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Friday I attended Katherine's first field trip. What an experience. There were 500+ pre-kinder and kinder kids at the theatre. I thought it would be Katherine's school of 6 kinder classes... nope 4 schools were in attendance and there were 6 bus loads of kids. I was having heart palpitations. But it went very smooth. I did have a minor mishap, I took a little boy to the bathroom. Half way there I realized he is the "trouble" maker in class. The little boy who I explain to Katherine is not "bad" just makes bad choices. Katherine is still waiting to see him make a "good" choice. Anywho... I take him to the boys room and he comes out asking for help with his belt. I look at it and I am stumped. I only know how little girl belts work. After he coached me I managed to undo it. Then I hear water and very strong stream of water and I am thinking what do I do?? Do I go in to see is he made another bad choice to play in the sink or heaven forbid the toilet? Lucky for me another little boy's dad was also there and he went in and made sure good choices were made.


The field trip was going to see a play called "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie". It was an adaptation of the book by Laura Joffe Numeroff. It was soooo sooo cute. It was an hour long and Katherine's attention span is not, but she did quite well all things considered. I am so lucky to have a job where I can take time off pretty easily so I can attend field trips, assemblies and parties at school. Danny was wonderful... not quite sure if he didn't trust me or was worried about my safety in downtown San Antonio, but he drove me down there and walked around for about 4 hrs. while we did our field trip. He even delivered a hot lunch from the sandwich shop further down in the park. He was not allowed to be near the kids because he did not take the parent volunteer class at school. Next year I think he will take it with me just so he has the option, Katherine sure wanted him to see the play with us. I can't wait for the next field trip!