Glenroe Farm Field Trip, May 20, 2014 and Park with Kara

Norah's First Field Trip down south to Glenroe Farm in County Wicklow (30 minutes on a charter bus, from her school). This farm is the location for an old Irish soap opera called...."Glenroe" (how appropriate). I'm told it was a big deal here - I picture the show "Dallas", meets Irish countryside. The farm is absolutely adorable and to have 27 brightly colored 3-5 year olds brought that cute-factor up to about 1 bazillion.

There were 3 of us parents who came on the trip, and 3 teachers so the child-wrangling wasn't hard at all. Though a few did try to escape our grasps, and/or climb into animal pens.

Norah was so sweet (she's left/center) with the blue raincoat with flowers on the bottom. She always hangs back, waits for the kids who are pushing and shoving to see, and then once they leave, she peeks at the animal. She's got it figured out. At one point though, I felt bad (because she gets shoved out of the way in their 3 year-old stampedes) so I told her to "push her way back in" or to just "stand her ground". She goes, "But Mommy, I just want to do it how I do it". (lesson learned, and she was so right).

 

 

Luke O. (in the green coat, left) is Norah's boyfriend. And Peaches, on his right, is the 3rd member of the love-triangle. Often the three of them walk around, all holding hands and sometimes Peaches will shove Norah out of the way if she's feeling a bit protective of her Luke. It's the only "romance" in the Montessori class....

Teacher Olivia (65 goings on 7), going down the teeny slide. I just love this woman! 

On another great day in May, we met Kara and the boys (Geordan & Rory) at Cabinteely Park. They have an incredible playground and hundreds of acres of trails so we had a ball there.

The Queen and King on their thrones

Rory and Geordan - the cutiest cutie pies.

(the sculptures explained)

Norah on a particularly cute-day, walking home from school.