Track and Field Day

Today was the K-6 track and field day in the next town over from ours. For the last couple of years I remember it raining on this day each June. They lucked out today and had beautiful weather! It looked like it might rain for a little while this morning, but it stayed away, the clouds cleared and it became a really hot day.

This was Beth's first track day and although she was excited she was a little nervous about what types of events she would have to participate in. For the littler kids they don't do high jump or some of the longer races, but they do have a little race, and a rubber chicken throw which the kids think is funny. This year they had rubber pigs and frogs as well. I haven't attended for the last couple of years, but the last time I went to watch Katie participate it was definitely a rubber chicken that got thrown. Gotta be fair to all animals though, and being that schools are all very inclusive now, you can't stop the rubber pigs and frogs from their chance to whipped around a school yard by a bunch of 6 yr olds, lol.

I went with a friend of mine and we took out 3 yr olds along with us. They had a blast since there was playground equipment to play on and Mr. Freezies to eat, what more could you ask for. You'd think since my friend and I just had one child each to keep track of compared to the normal three each, that it would have been an easy job, but with a hundred other children running around, we did manage to lose our kiddos a few times. Once we even lost them together. We were turned around talking to another mom and when we look back for the girls they were no where to be found. It was no longer than a minute that we weren't watching them, and POOF, they were gone. At least we were pretty sure they were together. It took a good 5 minutes of looking everywhere before they appeared from around the front of the school. A little friend of theirs was kindly showing them some flowers, lol.

Katie was not too keen on me taking her picture during any events, but I did manage to catch one of her doing the running long jump. Check out the side of my blog for more pictures (or on facebook there should be a slideshow).