CarniVAL

So the kids have watched the movie Rio about 5 times over the last month. It's a cute movie if you haven't seen it. It's about some birds who get stolen in Rio during Mardi Gras. The characters in the movie sing and dance about carniVAL. This is the way Tanner has chose to pronounce carnival when talking about the year end carnival at school, which has had everyone in stitches, since he keep saying things like, "mom, when are we going to carniVAL?" "I hope they have good candy at carniVAL" etc. Well we went last night.


This is yearly fundraiser at the kids school. Marisa usually signs up to sell tickets and I sign up for cleanup duty when it's all over. It's getting more and more fun as the kids are getting bigger. Jake and to a lesser extent Tanner, hang out with their friends and consume their body weight in candy, soda, cupcakes and cotton candy. Which leave us more more or less free to talk to fiends, socialize with their teachers etc. The teachers get in the dunk booth (the hit every year when the principal and PE teacher are in there), parents paint hair and faces, there are jump houses and games and it just a great community event. 


Jake this year really wanted to hang out at the karaoke booth (Why? It where all the girls are.). He and his buddies all got up and sang. Jake did a Nickleback song and and Eminem song, both of which I'm pretty sure he just did because he thought those artists were cool. I'm pretty sure he hadn't heard either of the songs he did before. I got some awesome video that will be played for every prom date, graduation party and rehearsal dinner in the foreseeable future. He came home with his hair dyed green and hopped up on a ton of crap. He didn't get to sleep until well after 9:30 and had to get up early and play a tough baseball game today.


Tanner played with his friends and wanted to try to dunk his PE teacher, which he did. The tradition is; the kids get three throws and if they don't hit the target or dunk the teacher, they all run up and hit the button by hand, so the teacher gets dunked every time. God love teachers, they have endless patience, are always good sports and brave because it is freezing each and every year they do this. Tanner also got his hair painted green and had a really good time. 


Faith is special person at Pre-School this week, so she has Calvin the Special Person bear home with her this weekend. She wanted to take Calvin to the carnival last night, s she stuffed him in a backpack and away she went. We have to make a photo page each time Calvin comes home for his traveling scrapbook, so Faith wanted to take Calvin into the funny photos booth with us, so she could put that on his photo page. 


This is one of the events we truly love in our community. It a fun, safe time out for kids and frieds. It also means that school is almost out for the year, which is both amazing and terrifying.