After AERA things generally get quieter for me, but not so this year. We are moving to New Mexico and Hannah finished preschool and we sold our house and so there has been quite a lot of chaos.
Hannah and I made a list of stuff we wanted to do before we left the area and one of them was see a few more baseball games. The Royals were playing the White Sox and the seats were cheap so we went out to the game. Hannah really likes watching and playing sports. She wants to go to a soccer game, a tennis match, and learn to bowl too.
Here is the Running Han instead of the running man. She painted this in Preschool and they hung it up with the others in Art Center for all to see.
We also had a lot of birthday parties and graduation get togethers. This was taken at a party for a one year old.
The end of school also means field trips. Hannah's class went to the KU Museum of Natural History. It was a rainy day, hence the McIntosh.
Yes, they are eating their snack on the ground. I tried to look away. I did catch one kid eating food directly off the floor and I stopped him.
For Mother's Day, we were in New Mexico looking for a place to live. We don't usually go out to eat on Mother's Day because we don't go out to eat on Sunday unless I am at a conference. But this year, we went out because we were not at home. Our food took a long time to come out and Hannah became indignant and complained. "It's Mother's Day and don't you people know my mom is a mother?" They gave her a cookie and me a flower.
As I have been doing work and boxing up the house, Hannah has been playing. Here is Peg-Leg Hannah the Pirate.
You might be able to tell that many of our pictures suggest it is the rainy season in Kansas. The heavy rains come in May along with storms that produce Tornadoes until about October. I get caught in deluges every now and again.
On the last day of preschool they had a picnic and went to the park. When I was a kid and even as a teacher, I was always so sad on the last day of school. As an adult, I figured out that if I had something to do that was really fun, something that came immediately after, something to look forward to, I did better. So after the picnic, we loaded up in the car and drove to St. Louis and saw the Cardinals play the Giants.
We really are Giants fans, but I like the "Cards." I especially like the stadium and the vibe from the fan base. I actually would rather go see the Cardinals than the Royals even though the Royals are closer and they have won a World Series more recently.
It was threatening to rain when we arrived and the game did have a rain delay, but that did not deter us.
We ate our ballpark food and waited to sing in the seventh inning like good fans.
And that was the end of the year. Now to move, find a place to live, and start living.
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