Homecoming Carnival

Today was the Homecoming Carnival at MICDS. Ben and I went and had a really nice time. We saw a bunch of the kids from his class. There was a bounce house, an inflatable slide, an inflatable obstacle course, games with prizes, (free) food and drinks, an ice cream truck, a couple of field hockey games to watch and lots of fun to be had. Ben got a spider painted on his hand, took 2 trips to the ice cream truck (only eating miniscule amounts of each treat - big surprise), ate 4 bites of a hot dog and some chips (a hard won compromise prior to the second trip to the ice cream truck), watched some field hockey, bounced in the bounce house, conquered the obstacle course a couple of times (and managed not to get trampled by all of the big kids racing each other), got his first piece of MICDS paraphenalia (an adorable little football jersey - the only thing they had small enough for him) AND got said hi to *by name* by two fourth grade girls who knew him. As I said to him, play on player!