With the hours of daylight decreasing, and the garden gone, the deer are becoming more bold. More than once, two does with two fawns have come into our yard in the morning. As I try to quietly open the back door, they look at me and say, "What's going on?" "What are you doing?"
They successfully cleaned out the pepper patch this morning!
Grandparents Day is a big event at St. Al's School. The day started with Mass. I enjoyed listening to K.K.'s voice as she sang the songs. After Mass, grandparents went to the gym for 'breakfast' and a music show. Each of the five grade levels sang one song.
The grandparents were invited to visit their grandchild/ren in their classrooms. We stopped for a short visit in Noah's classroom, before heading up to K.K.'s classroom.
K.K. made cards for each set of grandparents welcoming us to Grandparents Day. "You have to share with Grandpa," she said to me. 
Lunch with K.K. included a choice of chicken patty sandwich, pizza or grilled cheese with sides of salad, applesauce, pineapple, baked potato or corn. With cookies for dessert. Milk went with the meal.
K.K. went out to recess We returned to Noah's class.
Noah's teacher read Jump, Frog, Jump. Each student cut out pictures from the story. Grandparents were allowed to help. "I can do it by myself," said Noah. He cut his pictures out right along the lines. THEN, the pictures were to be put in sequence, as the story was reread. Noah had the next picture ready before each page was read! 
Lunch with Noah: the grandparents ate cookies. And one of us got a second helping of chocolate milk...
Time for Noah to go to recess and for the grandparents to head home.
"What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance: unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor (does this include a healthy dose of teasing?), comfort, lessons in life, and, most importantly, cookies." ~ Rudolph Giuliani
Just you wait, Minnesota Fred! Your turn is coming!
