Treats

Eli celebrated his half birthday in preschool by bringing in treats for his classmates this week.  While his real half birthday is actually in December, it sounded like there were quite a few other kids with summer birthdays, so his teacher suggested that June birthdays could be celebrated in January to try to spread them out.  We created dirt pudding cups topped with gummy worms as his special birthday treat this year.  Birthday treats - yet another fun and special milestone to celebrate as Eli grows up and gets a little older:)

Speaking of treats, we were able to get a little head start on Valentine's treats too.  After we worked together to create his own personalized bag to hold valentines from his classmates, Eli helped assemble his treat bags with the message:  "The world needs S'MORE friends like you!"  The bags contained chocolate, graham crackers, and pink strawberry flavored marshmallows to be used to create s'mores.  Eli helped assemble the bags and also signed his name on the tags.  Good thing there are only 12 other kids in his class since he had to redo some of them and ended up signing his name more than 12 times after some did not quite meet the standards of quality control...