Hanukkah Party at JCYS!

On Thursday, Joseph and I headed over to Maddie's Day Care for their Hanukkah party at 5:30pm.  The first half of the party was in Room 3 where we ate potato latkes with apple sauce and sour cream. They were delicious but Maddie wasn't interested in them. She had a bit of a melt down while eating so we brought her outside in the hallway. After she calmed down we brought her back into the room and she had some apple sauce instead.

At 6pm we headed upstairs for the music concert. They had a lovely musician named Susan Salidor singing and playing instruments. She conducts music classes on Mondays.  She was very entertaining and had a lovely voice. We left before the final song as Maddie was getting fussy and hungry (not to mention it was really hot and crowded in the room) and we wanted to beat the rush out.

I forgot to mention that we noticed Maddie had what looked like a bite mark on her cheek! At first I thought it was maybe lipstick from a teacher but upon closer inspection, it was raised and we could see the indentations of little teeth!  When went back to her room to get our coats, I looked at the "What I did today" sheet and noticed they read a book called "Teeth are Not for Biting" so we are not sure if they read it because Maddie got bit, or she got bit after they read the book to the class... She probably got bit before and they read it as a result.

We headed to a Mediterranean restaurant on the way home and had dinner there. Maddie loved picking pieces of salad off of Joseph's plate and looking out the window. Lately she has been saying "What's that??" a lot (even when she knows what "that" is).  She saw someone strange walk by the window and said "What's that?" I did not see him but heard Joseph say "Whoa!" so I turned my head and it was a guy with very big dreadlocks walking by. Joseph said not only did he have big dreadlocks but also had lots of piercings and was wearing leather chap-like pants and was overall crazy looking.  No wonder she said "What's that?!?"

Chilling on the couch in Room 3

Dancing to the music

Aw, cuddles with Mommy

Watching the musicians

Photo of Susan Salidor and Matt. Taken from the JCYS Facebook page

Look at all those kids and parents celebrating! Taken from the JCYS Facebook page

Close up of her bite mark

Notice where it says : Today We ... Read "Teeth are not for biting"