Under the Shade Tree

It's not often that I can say this during the month of August, but today was the perfect day to be outside.  A perfect day for a picnic under a nice, big shade tree...

The fountain was the ideal place to cool down when the weather began to warm up...

I loved watching Lily dance in the fountain...

Sissy preferred to sit back and watch Yiyi...

Like Sophia, I like sitting back and observing as well...

Lily, however had a different plan for me...

Into the water we went and I loved every moment of it!

A Trip to Wonderland

Alice is in town and we must pay her a visit.  I see this as a great opportunity to take our first field trip.  Luckily I had another chaperone to accompany me and help keep my students in line.  Hee hee...

Before any serious learning could be done, there was fun to be had...

Then we entered Alice's wonderland...

and fell down the rabbit hole...

Off with her head...

The hall of doors...

Even I learned something today that I never knew.  If you didn't already know the backstory behind Alice, just read on and you will also learn a little something...

THE Original Alice...

Finally, we came back through the rabbit hole...

and then cleaned some teeth?  Odd transition, but okay...

All that learning has left me famished.  Hopefully the girls will enjoy the second part of our field trip...a picnic in the park.