Yee-Haw!

This past week was Western Week at school.  Initially, Eli wasn't too into it.  He said things like, "I don't like cowboys," and "I don't want to wear boots."  After reading a few library books on cowboys and seeing Elina all dressed up, he was converted by the end of the week.  It also helped that he stamped a cute bandana and made a cowboy hat at school.

Western Week is just full of fun at school.  Kids play on the hay bales in the playground, search for gold nuggets hidden in the sand, milk a "cow," and eat a "cowboy breakfast" (egg and bean burritos).  The highlight of Western Week is watching the 1st grade class perform a square dance.  Elina was SO excited to be performing it this year!  

The kids looked great out there, but it was a funny square dance because the same steps just repeated over and over again about 8 times.  So...it was pretty simple for them to learn and to perform.  With that being said, they still did a great job performing their 2 dances.  

At the end everyone was asked to join the 1st graders to do a "mass square dance."  It was just chaos, but the little kids had fun. Elina, on the other hand, was not into the chaos.  She just kept looking around with this weird face as if she were saying, "Where is the 'square' in this square dance???"  She definitely loves order and structure!

Now we just have to find a day to hit the rodeo grounds to make our Western experience complete!  Yee-haw!