Sick as a Dog (or a four year old girl)

 

Not everything was great with Kasia’s first field trip.  When she came, she became noticeably ill.  After she took a brief nap (which she never does) it was obvious that something was wrong.  We took her to the doctor that night, and sure enough, she was struck down with the dreaded pink eye.

The whole next week turned in to a slew of other illnesses.  Her pink eye cleared up, but she then caught a cold. That kept her out of school for a few more days, and then she had something else wrong with her.  So again, we went to the doctor, and this time she had an ear infection.  So we got some medicine for that, and that cleared up as well.  Finally.  After a week of being sick, Kasia finally got healthy again.

And then Kara got sick.  And then I got sick.  Eventually, we’re all going to get better and our house will be the very model of health.  Hopefully that will happen sometime before Christmas.

Apple Picking Field Trip

Kasia went on her first ever field trip with her pre-school in September. The whole class went out to Knotts Island to go apple picking. Suffice it to say, Kasia had a great time wandering in between the various apple trees and picking everything and anything that slightly resembled an apple. Kasia was initially going with the philosophy of "quantity over quality." We quickly had to correct this view and had her picking some high quality apples in no time. And pick them she did. We left with a bag over-flowing with apples of all kinds, and despite the fact that Kasia won't eat them, she had a great time picking them. Kara was able to turn the pile of apples in to two very delicious apple pies (which I enjoyed very much).

Kasia's pre-school and her teacher Miss Debbie

After the apple picking was finished, the class then took the ferry back home. We really lucked out in that the weather was absolutely perfect for a field trip and ferry ride. It was sunny, warm (but not too warm), with low humidity. You could not have asked for better weather for being outdoors. Kasia loved the ferry ride almost as much as picking apples. She and her friends were able to run amok around the ferry, and just have a great time.

It was the first of many field trips that she's going to be going on this year, and this one certainly set the bar pretty high.