Fund Raising for Pre School

Rebecca's very First Fund Raising Event.

The Rockcreek Preschool Trick-Athon 2009.

Ready... Set... Go!

Andy sheered and had as much fun as Rebecca that day. She raised a total of $50.00 for her class that day. She had a total of 5 minutes to raise and she made 4 trips around the short track.

Rebecca was having a bit of a dificult time manuvering her Tricycle.

Or maybe turning is just not her thing right now.

Ok starit ahead might not be her thing either.

The good thing was that nobody was hurt.

Gymnastics Class

Rebecca is going to gymnastics now.

Here she is going through an obstacle course. There is lots of jumping, tumbling, going through and over things. She is learning to walk on a balance beam, do the double bars and all that sort of thing.

Here we see Rebecca doing part of the obstacle course. She had to go through the giant donut, into the ball pit, and next she is to crawl around the flat donut.

This next part, she is working on her arm strength. She also had to balance and pull herself towards the next obstacle.

Gymnastics class

In addition to her dance class, Rebecca is also taking a weekly gymnastics class. I finally got to attend one of her classes last week. It is a pretty fast paced class that focuses on circuits. Each of the circuits has multiple activities, varying from climbing, hanging, jumping, etc. The stations allow each of the kids to work alone with some piece of equipment. The quick pace helps the kids to keep their attention which is definitely a good thing. The picture above is of Rebecca walking the balance beam. They also have minature parrallel bars, mini-uneven bars and lots of trampolines. (see below.)

Time for a quick recap

Since this is our first post, I figured we should start it off with a quick recap of the year so far.

Starting up with the Christmas, 2007, we have Rebecca and Granny Birmingham on the left as granny prepares to blow out her candles. And on the right we have Rebecca and her Great-Grandmother (we call her GG) Rebecca. We had a great time in Hattiesburg, Mississippi with my mom's family.

In January, we started Rebecca in her first Dance Class. She goes to a local studio every Saturday along with other 18-24 month little girls.

She has gotten much better at following along with Miss Katie, but still needs the occasional help from Mom:




On the 16th of March, we went to the California Capital Airshow with the Susana's sister, Idis, and her family. Rebecca got to see multiple helicopters and airplanes, including the Blue Angels. Despite the noise of the planes a great time was had by all.

The Saturday before Easter we went up to Beale AFB to enjoy a 0-2 year old Easter egg hunt. Rebecca got a good collection of eggs and candy, she even saw the Easter Bunny.

We followed that easter egg hunt with another one at the Schumacher's house, where Rebecca looked for eggs with her cousin Raymond and his neighbors.




Abuelita was there as well, watching Rebecca search in the garden.

A good time was had by all, and afterwards the kids inspected their loot.

All in all, we have had a great year, and we are looking forward to celebrating Rebecca's second birthday and seeing what the rest of the year brings us.