Fall Festival

Every year at this time, Braden's school does their big annual fundraiser in the form of a Fall Festival. The kids get out of class shortly after lunch on that day, and go out onto the playground where each teacher has set up a game. They buy tickets (18 for $5) and each game or snack costs one ticket. I volunteered to help with his teachers' game, which was the ping pong toss into goldfish bowls. Instead of winning a real goldfish, each student who won got a stuffed one. I was so glad that I brought Lydia with me, because she was a great help in retrieving ping pong balls! Braden had a wonderful time walking around with his friends and playing the games. He felt so grown up being able to go from game to game without Mom. At one point I saw him with his friend and they were each gnawing on pickles they had bought with their tickets. The day of Fall Festival was also "Red Day" at school, so he wore a red hat, shirt, pants and socks.