Kindergarten Round-Up

I can't believe we had kindergarten round-up today!  Here is Addy and her buddies in front of her new school.  They couldn't be more excited to go to their new big school.  Today was just a quick intro to the school, presentation by the current kindergartners, followed by some fun with a petting zoo and playing on the playground.  It was also a mini-reunion for me, as tons of my high school friends have kids there already.  Addy is growing up way too fast and could have cared less whether Michael and I were there today -  she was running around with her friends the whole time.  There are at last half a dozen kids she knows that are going to be there in her grade, plus some of the older kids in kindergarten this year.  Great thing about going to preschool in the neighborhood is a lot of those same kids end up at the same school for elementary school.

I was excited about the school stuff, but I think that the petting zoo was the highlight for me.  Most petting zoos have some goats, sheep, pigs, pretty standard.  This one was amazing with baby chicks, turtles, ducks, bunnies, pigs, sheep, goats, and I'm sure I'm missing some animals.   I seriously want to hire them to just come setup shop in our backyard for a while so we can play. 

 Addy looks like she is killing the poor chick, but I think that she is actually being gentle, and the chick could have cared less.  I did hear some peep really loud now and again, but the kids were quick to put them down.  They had a whole tub full of these guys and all the kids were holding them.  I didn't get close, but Addy said there was a bowl of food in the middle of the tub and the chicks were all just running around. 

  Maybe more crazy than the chicks were these turtles that were running around.  Not real fast, but there were probably a dozen of these guys in all sizes, out of their shells just cruising around the pen.  I'm not sure if they were on some drug or something, but I've never see turtles this social before.  All the kids were picking them up and carrying them around - Addy kept on holding them upside down and they were just hanging out, no hiding in the shell.