the big red dog comes to town

Let me tell you - Britton loves Clifford the Big Red Dog books.  We've been known to take out ten or so Clifford books from the library at one time.  So you can imagine how excited Britton has been about Clifford the Big Red Dog coming to visit her school for storytime.  Of course, the school wanted the kids to get jazzed up, so they kept bringing it up to them every day for the last three months it seems.  And that just fueled Britton's anticipation into a frenzy.  We showed up early so as to get decent parking, all the while Britton trying to put together that we were at school on a "home day" (Saturday).  We checked in and found out we were in group 1!  

All the kids were hyped up.  I noticed that Britton's teacher was sitting up front in a strange outfit, and she promptly introduced herself as "Emily Elizabeth."  Ummm, that might work with the other kids, but Britton knows this is her teacher and not Emily Elizabeth and she's not buying it.  They brought Clifford in and Britton was so excited to see him!  But then Clifford left after a few short minutes and "Emily Elizabeth" read the books.  I don't know why I thought Clifford would read the books (how can a furry read through that costume anyways?) but Britton didn't seem to notice.  Clifford was available for pictures afterwards, but Britton doesn't like getting too close to big costume animals so she refused to go in to the room with Clifford in there.  Instead, we went outside and bought way too many books from the book fair!

Clifford and "Emily Elizabeth"

And the bouncy house, always the bouncy house for Britton.  She found her favorite teacher there, and they jumped until Britton was the last kid standing.

"Reading" her new books and munching on goldfish

Memaw was visiting this weekend, so she got to hear all about Clifford and the bouncy house and her new books while Britton helped make gumbo.  Side note - in one of her princess books, Tiana talks about making gumbo.  I told Britton that Memaw knows how to make gumbo and Britton never let it go.  First thing she asked Memaw, "Can we make gumbo?"

This is the first time this child has taken a nap at home since Christmas.  We wore her out this weekend!