Retro Wednesday: Happy Thanksgiving!

This is Minnie at her Thanksgiving Program in 2nd grade.

This program was Atom's first excursion to the school--he was less than two weeks old!

This is all the kids with Nana (Atom is the blanket bundle she's holding.) She came right after Atom was born and cooked us an early Thanksgiving dinner (as well as filling my freezer with cooked seasoned hamburger and chicken for easy dinners!) She could only come for a weekend because she was in law school (and she probably shouldn't have even done that.)

So this Monday I went to Jet's second-grade Thanksgiving Program. (He is the one with the "E" on his chest.) I took Atom with me. He is a bit bigger now! The program was really cute. The kids read some Thanksgiving poems together and then each had a part in telling the story of the first Thanksgiving. Each child drew a picture of what their part was talking about and they had the pictures up on a screen behind them when they said their part. They also sang a few Thanksgiving songs. Jet did most excellent--saying his part loud and clear. He was the cutest one there and I am NOT biased! :)

This is a close-up of his costume showing his fine Indian symbol artwork. He made this Sunday night when I remembered he was supposed to have a costume for the program the next morning! In Arizona we were spoiled--they made their costumes at school. In Utah they expect the parents to be more involved (not a bad thing, but annoying when you forget about it.) I managed to coax our video camera into working so I got the whole thing on tape but I have no clue how to get things from a video tape onto my computer so you'll just have to be content with still photos.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!