Friday, October 27, 2017

We experienced our first fall festival at UWF this Friday. The kids in Selah June’s class were supposed to dress up like scarecrows, but I was lucky to get her into some form of overalls. She was not interested in wearing any face paint or a hat, and I certainly was not going to get her all scratchy with straw.

The kids in her class spent days in advance making construction paper farm animals and tractors, and these decorated the big red barn backdrop for pictures.

They had popcorn and cookies and cupcakes for the kids, and Selah June was a big fan. She also was a fan of this little cow. Once she got a turn sitting on it, she wouldn’t give it up. The rest of the world moved around her while she hogged the cow. Finally, after a long time of sitting on the cow in the middle of all the action, she was willing to join me to stand in line for the tractor ride.

It was crazy to watch all the kids ride the emotional wave of excitement and overstimulation upon arrival, to crazy running around the playground chasing each other, to the sugar high and low from doing the cupcake walk and eating cupcakes and cookies, to having meltdowns as mommies and daddies left to go back to work. The center has the festival down to a science, and all the rest of us faculty parents just stepped back and watched in awe.