Ah, Walmart...

This was the week of our Jerry's Walk the Diamond fundraising event.  Every year, all of the EEP classrooms get together at the Ems' Civic Stadium to raise money for our program.  Actually, the money raising all happens before the event, the children are sent home with packets so that they can get donations.  but the day is still pretty fun.  Each classroom is responsible for bringing two things that the kids can play with (we brought a bubble machine that refused to work...and a "ball pit" which the children swarmed to) and parents can bring their children to the event to play with friends and teachers.  We ended the event by singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and running around the bases.

This year was especially fun because the duck from the U of O was there in the morning.  The kids were so excited!  The kids were all running around and playing all over the field and all the sudden (it was like a vacuum really) they were all in the same spot, pushing, trying to get to Puddles.  It was really cute.  And Stu showed up!  Although Kenton had already left so I'm pretty sure that he was really bored...

This is essentially the exact same picture that Katrina had on her blog but I 

swear I took it with my camera!

The best thing about this week though, was that it was a short week!  We didn't have class on Wednesday because of Walk the Diamond and then we teachers were able to have Friday off because it was an optional teacher paperwork day.  It feels like it has been the longest weekend ever!  But I really needed it.  I have been able to sleep in past 6:30am for more than two days!  Woo hoo!  So far, we have not really taken advantage of the Memorial Day weekend...but we have been able to hang out with Kenton and Katrina and also went to see Indiana Jones!