LMS' Book Fair Family Night

Tuesday evening, I ran up to Lowndes Middle to pick Benjamin up from his FFA State Fair trip. Low and behold, what should I see? but that it was time for the annual Family Night. We had gone last year and loved it.

It was one of those frustrating evenings. Stacy was at school, everyone was hungry and it was suppertime, etc., etc., etc., but I decided to load them all up and take them up there.

I asked Benjamin why he hadn't told us that the Festival was Tuesday night. He said he didn't know. I asked him if there had been a note sent home. He said that Mrs. Malone doesn't send notes home. I asked him if she had announced it in homeroom. He didn't know. I should have asked him if he goes to homeroom.

Anyway, they had a ball. Lowndes Middle's festival is the most fun. There are different booths set up with Book Fair-type themes. You get a card with a map of the booths, and when you go to a booth, they punch your card for that booth. Doesn't cost a dime. As I spent all of my time with Emma, most of this is, of course, about her. We started with the dart throw. She, of course, goes up to the board and sticks the dart in. Mrs. Jeffords, Ms. Murphy, and Maria Jose give her candy. She thinks that's pretty cool. Next we go to the fishing booth. She really didn't know what to think about that, but she got candy. Again, pretty cool. We went to the duck pond, where she won a set of purple pom-poms (if you lose one, what do you call them then?). They had to throw Emma out of the pond. She thought that was VERY cool. And there we got to talk to the anti-communicating Mrs. Malone. I mentioned that we didn't realize that the festival was that night. Her reply: "Well, we sent notes home, there are posters all over the halls, and they've announced it over the PA every day." Hmmm. Mrs. Malone=3, Benjamin=0.

The ball toss. The kind ladies, of course, let Emma go around the barrier to get closer to the table. One of the ladies squatted down to hand her the ball so she could throw it at the cans of the table, and she promptly threw the ball...back to the lady. The lady handed her the ball again. Emma threw the ball back at her. The kind lady, finally beginning to realize that they had not been playing the same game, tries to direct her to the table...and got the ball thrown to her again. Well, Emma eventually knocked over the can, got her candy, and left. But she was certainly grateful to the kind (albeit, slow) lady who played catch with her.

But the best of all were the bouncy houses. They had a Blues Clues house and a Dragon Tails house. Emma spotted them as soon as we pulled into the school. Here's a pic of Emma and Zazzy bouncing away.



They all had an absolutely wonderful time. Thanks, Lowndes Middle!