Field Day

On Wednesday morning we finished reading our last school novel for the year, and a few of the kids had to finish up some lessons, and I had to do some work on a few projects...but Phoebe also wanted to know if I would read a story to her in her little tent.

"I don't know that I'll fit in there with you," I said. 

"It's okay with me if your legs stick out," she said.

So we read a book in her tent with my legs sticking out. Lucky for her it was a book about beetles and one of the pages showed the life cycle of a ladybug, so she wasn't the least bit scared when she found an alien-esque "baby ladybug" later on in the day because she knew just what it was—a baby ladybug! 

Phoebe dressed in yellow because I was assigned to monitor the yellow team and Phoebe wanted to be on my team. The boys were assigned to the green team and Zoë was on the blue team. I don't have any yellow shirts (aside from a sweater—and I wasn't about to wear a sweater to field day) so I wore Phoebe's reflective vest (super cool).

Here are some kids enjoying the sack race:

Alexander:

Benjamin:

And Zoë:

Phoebe didn't want to play any of the games. She spent her time running between me and Benjamin.

Benjamin was always good for a little piggy back ride:

Here are the kids doing the dress up relay...Benjamin:

And Alexander:

And Zoë:

We had an egg-on-a-spoon race (I should tell Emily next year that I have egg-on-a-spoon in the team colours...my mom gave me a wooden set for Easter one year; we just used golf balls on metal spoons for field day...which is also fine):

We had a number of balloon games. The kids all had to pop one by sitting on it. Here's Benjamin and a friend linking arms with the balloon between their backs to carry it around their cone and back:

And Alexander:

And Zoë (with her STEM teacher because their team was uneven):

And here's Phoebe with a balloon on Benjamin's back:

She was really quite independent this day. When she wanted a drink I told her that I'd left our water bottles in the shade at the picnic tables way over by the parking lot. She went all by herself to get a drink! Here she is wandering back to me through the field:

We had ball passing games and water games (one with a sponge and one with a cup). Emily plans all sorts of fun games! Here are the kids doing some tug of war competitions...

Benjamin is in the front, Alexander is third on the rope. Their team lost (they should have perhaps put some bigger people at the back).

And here's Zoë (blue shirt, pink shorts) getting ready for her tug of war (which her team won):

I don't know why I don't have more pictures of Zoë's team! They won the kid championship (it was yellow versus blue at the end and I hardly knew who to cheer for because I was supervising yellow but Zoë was on blue...but that's okay because we just cheer for everyone anyway).

The kids love doing tug of war and had all sorts of arrangements they wanted to try. They had moms versus moms (my team won):

Then they wanted to do moms versus middle school and up. The moms won.

Then they wanted to do all the kids versus the moms. The moms lost (we didn't even stand a chance against that army of children). 

Then they wanted to do middle school and up versus the little kids. The little kids won again (there are just so many of them)!

We were all hot and sweaty by the end of field day. The kids got popsicles, but I think they enjoyed hiking down to the creek to cool off in the shade and water even more than they enjoyed their treat.