Acorns are for Deer, Silly!

           I'm going to tell you a little, short bit about my day. One is because I want to remember it and two is I thought it was cute. To let you know from the start, I was worked some extra hours tonight at work. During my morning shift, all we did was play outside on the playground. It was nice outside but it did get a little boring the closer it got to lunch time.
          After nap time, it was a blast though and some cute moments happened after it. First, we had a birthday party for one of the preschool girls. It felt so good to see her smile after she opened each present. She got 2 princess dresses (dress up), a mermaid bath toy, and another little princess toy plus a teddy bear from me because I happened to bring some stuffed animals that I had left over today to donate to the children so I picked one out and put it in her cubie. She wanted to open every one of her presents right away. She even tried on one of the princess dresses.
          After the party, we all went outside and took a walk in the woods. That was fun! I had the babies with me in the back of the line plus a little, slow preschooler but yet we were all slow. Why were we slow you might ask? We were picking up acorns and putting them in our pockets. When I say we, I do mean me too but I was just picking up the tops for the children to paint with. It was so cute because two 1 year olds and a 3 year old were trying to pick them up. They got some acorns but not as many as they would have liked. It was cute to me because it brought back the memory of me picking up acorns in the woods while I was walking with my babysitters. It was a really, special moment for me that I felt like I passed on to some of the children. One of the 1 year olds laughed and smiled after she picked each acorn up off the ground. They were also picking walnuts off the ground but I would tell them to put them back down.
          After the walk in the woods and the gathering of the acorns, we went for a walk to a hill. When we got to the hill, the children rolled down it. Some of them also run down it if they were too scared to roll or didn't know how to roll. The other staff and I just sat on the grass for a few mins. watching all of them roll down the hill while enjoying the cool, Fall weather. It was a day to remember! I love days like those. Days where you can pass on what you did as a child in the simplest of ways without even knowing sometimes. I just started to pick up acorns (full acorns) and one of the little toddlers followed along with me and started to do the same and then two more children started it.
           It is moments like these that I work where I do. We can live in more of a home environment out in the country then a preschool/daycare setting in town. We petted horses and gathered acorns, what more farm like things can we do before this winter. I started them both! Is that a surprise? Not really if you really know me. :)