School Days

Some pictures from school things. First Harry has a new tie for school. In Kindergarten, the boys have the option of wearing a tie on Tuesday's and Thursdays for Mass. First grade, it's a must. Most of the boys don't wear one, because, well, they're kindergartners! :)

Harry has been asking to wear one. He has some clip on ones at home, but they have to be uniform colors. So, Mema surprised him with one, and he was oh-so happy.

The next bit of school business. Harry came home with an art-project for the whole family. Decorate a turkey with whatever you can think of to make it original. Needless to say, I ended up with my fingers stuck together one too many times, and the phrase, "Look at your Mama, she's over there sticking packing peanuts to your turkey all by herself...go help her!", was said quite a few times.
You can't see it, but the tie is plaid. We had him wear his sweater vest over it b/c this is a bit more of a 'big boy' tie. It wraps around his neck and we didn't want him to get hurt on his first outing with it.

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The turkey. Per my previous statement about the turkey making, I didn't get any pictures of it during the process. My fingers were literally stuck together a few times. Here it is up at school. We used packing peanuts cut in half, beans for his neck and of course plenty of glitter. Harry liked the fact that we re-used things we had to decorate his bird.

Here is Nina by her bird. This was done all by herself in her class. No sticky fingers involved, and amazingly, no pink involved either.