We welcomed Miss Mindy this morning with an informal “Meet and Greet.” Thanks to all of you who dropped in for a cup of coffee or some of the delicious treats Miss Tami prepared. Mindy will officially be with us on Monday, January 2.

Our music today got us off and running. We started with our Hello song, a few songs in Spanish, and our new favorite, Stop and Go. Ozzie and Jada really love this one! It is fabulous to watch the children respond to Paulina singing different directions to them like “move slowly”, “run fast”, and “STOP!” We used the scarves, rainbow streamers, and shakers today.

We used our new beautiful donuts today that Miss Paulina made for our donut shop song. We played our name game and read stories about monkeys. Elizabeth, who is bananas about our monkeys, arrived just in time. Our morning would not have been complete without some Frosty, requested by Jada and Chloe. We love how Jada sings, dances, and reads books all at the same time! Talk about multi-tasking! We also enjoyed reading some new books that Tami picked up for us. They showed great attention span while listening to “I don’t want to take a bath”, an adventure about a tiger who tries to get out of taking a bath while meeting new friends in the forest.

Some of our friends learned how to play Connect Four in the kitchen. They were very interested in figuring out how to drop the coins into the slots and counting them falling into the columns.

We had a great time outside pulling friends on sleds and enjoying some sunshine. We don’t have much snow left, but there was enough on the flat area to make it work. Our favorite moment was when four children piled in one sled and giggled together as they were pulled across the patchy snow. It was very sweet to see the way Elizabeth took care of Sloane by having her sit on her lap so Sloane wouldn’t fall back when the sled moved. Jada took a turn pulling friends and was able to pull one at a time.

Lunch today was noodles with red sauce and cheese (some had couscous with beans), mixed veggies, apples. PK thought it would be fun to paint his face and head orange with sauce to match his shirt! PK says “Eating should be an experience!”

Enjoy the day, may your heart be filled with holiday blessings!