We had a visitor in the house today! Pierre le Bear is visiting the Moo's Pre K class from Bearis, France and spending the night with all of the kids -- after a long wait, the Moo's name was finally picked, and we have been ferrying Pierre around all day! Frankly, she has never cared one whit for conventional toys, so I am but shocked at how attached she is to Pierre -- she does not want to give him back tomorrow! We took Pierre to riding lessons, and to Clyde's for dinner. After dinner we went for a walk in the woods behind Clyde's, which was a lot of fun, but when we got home we discovered unwelcome visitors in the form of two ticks that had secured themselves to the girls' heads. Dad got both ticks off with heads intact (THANK YOU DAD) but not without lots of patience and lots of theatrics from the Moo, who convinced herself that the tick was going to bore into her skin and get into her bloodstream -- no more watching The Most Extreme for the Moo from here on out!
Pierre seemed to really like the Bean, and Dad's lobster!
The Bean liked trying on Pierre's clothes.
The fountains at Clyde's seemed to remind Pierre of Versailles!
Pierre had a few quick phone calls to make and wanted to keep his hands free, so he borrowed Dad's bluetooth. Then he lost it in the tall grass -- bears are so irresponsible! Luckily Dad found it, or he might have made Pierre pay for dinner.
Today was also the day the Moo's class visited the stables where she rides for a field trip that the Moo made happen all on her own. She asked her teacher if her class could go, and then she checked with the stables to see if it was alright with them. The kids got to see the two week filly (which fit perfectly with their current study of baby animals) and they all got a turn riding one of the horses. When we went back for lessons later that afternoon, Pierre got to ride on Pirate all by himself!
The Bean tried to get Pirate to come over to us by tempting with him with an apple, but she must have been waving it on Pirate's blind side (he is missing an eye . . .hence the name!!)
While the kids were on the field trip Mom snuck into her classroom to help some of the other mom's set up for a surprise birthday party for the Moo's teacher. The party was great, although the kids were about an hour late getting back from the stables, by which time the Bean had surreptitiously eaten about a pound of chocolate, so her behavior was on a downward spiral for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening. At the end of the day, Mom spent about an hour writing in Pierre's journal about all we had done (I left out the tics) and pasting in pictures from our day. Tomorrow, the Moo and I are off the National Gallery of Art with her class to look at the masterpieces the children have been studying all year -- should be fun!!
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