What!?…how is it already February and 100 school days into Reece’s 1st grade year?!  This is super exciting for her (and not so exciting for me because that means she’s getting older and I am too-ugh!).  The minute the note came home to make a hat with 100 items glued to it for the celebration – she was ready to start.  I think we had it made within an hour of that paper coming out of her backpack!  She chose beads and she worked so hard getting 100 beads counted out.  You know it is very easy to lose count!  She counted her piles of 10 several times to make sure it was exactly 100 and left the hot gluing to me.  I’m getting used to the sensation of being singed by a hot glue gun these days.

By coincidence I was scheduled to volunteer in her class today and she was thrilled that I got to be there on the 100th day of school!  When I arrived the kids were not in the classroom yet and I was able to take a look at all of their hats on their desks.  Let’s just say there’s quite a few over-achievers in the 1st grade at Manchester Park Elementary!  The note that came home made it seem like it was just supposed to be a low-key, not fancy, use scraps you have at home – little activity.  Well, I’m here to tell you that it really isn’t the case.  These hats were elaborate (apparently a few other moms were singed with hot glue guns)!  I thought ours was kind of fancy compared to what Jake’s looked like in 1st grade.  Jake, good thing you’re so cute that it doesn’t matter that your hat was kind of a hot mess!  That’s 100 straws by the way…

And this is Drew Boo’s in 1st Grade…100 googly eyes.

And of course I can’t find a picture of Morgan’s hat.  I’m sure she did one, but none of us can recall what it looked like!  Sorry MoMo!

In addition to all the first graders getting to wear these fun hats to school, they made a 100 day stew!  Ewwww…does anyone like stew?  I hate stew!  Thankfully, there’s catered to kiddos and it consisted of pretzels, marshmallows, goldfish, oreo cookies, teddy grahams, etc…you know..all those yummy  kids snacks.  That’s my kind of stew!  Now if it just had licorice, gummy bears, and chewy sprees…that would be top notch for me!  Reece signed herself up to bring pretzels and she very diligently counted out 100 to donate to the stew.

Great Job Reecie Cups!  Happy 100 days of 1st grade!!  I love you 100 x 100 x 100 x 100 x 100….and on and on!