First Day of Preschool

Carson has been going to preschool twice a week for a few hours.  He absolutely loves it.  He has a friend from his daycare that goes with him, so that was great. 

Getting Ready for Preschool

Tomorrow is Open House for Carson's preschool.  I'll pick him up from daycare, go to Open House, then head back to work.  He's been so excited to go for a while now.  Yesterday, he put on his backpack and was doing letters so he would be ready!

Playing in the Sprinkles

Chris built this sprinkler contraption for Carson to run in.  Since he can't play in a swimming pool unless is cleaned all of the time and has chlorine, this is the next best thing.

Zoo Fun

Carson and I went with Ashley a couple of weeks ago to the Omaha Zoo.  He loved it except for the  T-Rex...

This week we went to the Lincoln Zoo--not as cool, but he still had a good time.

More Great Strides

More photos from our walk:

 Carson and the alien-

 Meeting cousin Evan for the first time-

Great Strides Walk

We had a great turn out for the walk--a total of 25 walkers!  Even though we don't have our final team total in, I'm going to guess that it is right around $3,000.  I'm glad that the rain held off for us to get the walk in.

McPhee Rocks!

Our school every year does a Pennies for Patients drive for Leukemia.  It usually doesn't net more than $20 and the students and staff don't seem to get behind it.  This year Breanna (see picture below) came up with the idea that we should raise money for Cystic Fibrosis and put the money towards our Great Strides walk. 

We had a kick-off celebration and one of our students read some facts about what Carson has to go through every day.  The class with the fullest bucket would win a root beer float party.  So for the month of April, students were asked to bring in money.  The money poured in!  I had a student whose family donated $100 and another one in the picture below brought in $50 from her family.  The response was overwhelming.  Students asked around their neighborhoods too.  In the end, we raised $1,000!  That is so amazing!  Because of the amazing response, Ayars & Ayars donated root beer floats for the entire school.  Thank you so much for everyone's generosity.