Heart-A-Thon

We have been so blessed to find the perfect schools for our kids! Nathan and Benjamin started at Emmaus Today Christian Montessori School in January when I started going into the office to work rather than working from home, and they love it!

Last week we had a Heart-A-Thon Fundraiser to raise money for a new playground at the pre-primary campus (Benjamin's age -- 2-3 year olds). Since every family is to required to volunteer a certain number of hours during the year, I volunteered to be in charge of it. I figured if I'm going to volunteer for something it might as well be something where I can be with my kids rather than working in the garden or sorting recycling or something else that takes more time away from my kids.

It was fun! And we also surpassed our goal to raise $3,500 and raised close to $4,500 to date (the school director says more donations usually come in for a month or so after the event).

The teachers helped the kids make cute decorations in the days before the event.

There were four stations.

Station #1: Heart Smarts

We arranged for two Nutritionist Interns from UCSD come and do a really fun presentation about taking good care of our bodies and hearts.

Station #2 was Basketball

(Nathan's class)

(Benjamin's class)

Station #3 was "Roller Ball". 

For the older kids' class the parents rolled the balls from one side of the marked off area to the other and the kids had to try to dodge them and not get touched.

For the little kids the parents tossed the balls all over and the kids had to run and gather them and bring them back to the basket.

Station #4 was "Switch"

The kids danced and ran around the hula hoops on the ground and when the music stopped they had to find a hoop to stand in.

 After a hand wash, we ended the activities with a healthy snack. 

I LOVED being there to watch my boys do all the activities. They had a blast and so did I! 

Plus I got a little glimpse into their social lives at school. See the little girl with in the front row with long blond-ish hair? She's a little French girl named Belen. She got a scrape during one of the games so I sat down on the sidelines with her. She asked me whose mommy I was. When I told her I am Nathan's mommy she got a smitten little look on her face and said with a French accent, "Nathan loves me. He say that to me yesterday and hug me." "Really?" I replied, stifling a the urge to laugh. "It must be because you're so nice!"

I told Quinn about it so the next morning after we had family prayer Quinn asked, "So Nathan, do you have a friend at school named Belen?" "Yeah." Nathan answered non-chalantly. "She told me she loves me." Oh boy, three years old and we've already got some crushes going on!