Kids Day

El Burrito had a blast today. Our local PBS station does something called Kids Day every year - free admission, they bring a couple of celebrities (Clifford, Grover, and Curious George this year), and local groups or stores can come and have a booth to hand out freebies or whatever. We ended up with a scheduling conflict, so DH and I had to leave after half an hour, but my mom drove up and spent the afternoon with hi m. Apparently they stayed until the end, and had a great time. I was a little worried, El B cried when we left him standing in line to see Grover, but I guess he perked up after we left. He's smiling in his pictures anyway.

El B got to meet Clifford (twice), Grover, and Curious George, but not Miss Rosa (the local hostess for the PBS Kids shows). He came home with a ton of stuff, too.

• his very own wooden toolbox, which he made himself (with help), courtesy of Home Depot
• orange workshop apron (ditto)
• stickers - I stopped counting at 15. Clifford, Sid the Science Kid, etc
• Frisbee from the Little Gym
• purple coneflower seeds from the city's composting department
• 3 cards that he ink-stamped for us
• bookmarks - at least 4
• two temporary tattoos
  
• a boat made with a paper plate and a paper sail
• pirate hat from a folded comics section
• two free books (thanks to Scholastic and Clifford)
• one apple
• one sucker
• one piece of candy from Sylvan Learning (I didn't sign him up to win 30 hours of free tutoring, guaranteed to raise him a grade level. He's four.)
• four uninflated balloons (he wanted the Thomas the Train foil balloons)
• two bottles of sunscreen on carabiners
• a pencil with rubber duckies on it
• a rubber duckie eraser/pencil topper
• a Sid the Science kid eraser
• a little WordWorld story
  
• Sesame Street "Talking Cents" magazine
• three Happy Pet coloring books
• a handful of coloring/activity pages
• a park brochure about bats and how to build a cave diorama
• a free french fries coupon from McD's
• 10 free tokens at Chuck E Cheese (where we don't ever plan on going)
• assorted bits and pieces of paper
• a nice paper-towel painting he did for me - something about spraying food coloring on a piece of saran wrap and putting the towel on it
• a watermelon seed in a little pot
  

I think that's it. Lots of organizations had booths set up - the local Stream Team, public radio station, the recycling section of the city's public waste department, Scholastic, Usborne books. Those are just the ones I remember, and we weren't there long enough to see 10% of it before we had to leave.