This was Eleri first year at Fall Carnival as a student at Concordia. I took her the first year we arrived in Shanghai when she was two. This is Emersyn first year to not enjoy Carnival. It is for the Elementary children, preschool to 4th grade. It was a beautiful day for Fall Carnival which was a blessing since it rained all day yesterday.

Elle had decided she wanted to be a fairy for Carnival. We made a fairy wand because she didn’t want to take the special one Aunt Nancy had made.

I took this photo as the contrast between the little, red school bus Eleri took to Dulwich to the big, gold bus to Concordia. She is much happier on the big, gold bus as she has Emmy, Sophie, Sean and Dana.

At Carnival, Elle jumped into all the games. I convinced her to do the jumpy house first as everyone else was busy doing games. The jump house would be full at the end of the day when the games had been played.

Elle was a natural at the hula-hoop. Maybe it is due to the wii fit hula-hoop game or the hula-hoops in Nebraska get played with more than I thought.

The “Best Waiter Race” is a fun game of filling the cup with water from the sponge and running through the course.

“Beat the Goalie” was Elle against a very tall boy. She did stop the ball!

The “Pumpkin Toss” is always a favorite.

Elle had the right technique for the “Donut on the String” game – getting under it to grab the first bite.

Eleri’s teacher, Ms Shepard, is just a delight with the children.

The first graders had one and half hours for the fun. After I finished playing with Eleri, it was time for me to work our class game. As Class Mom, I had spent the week organizing Moms to work our assigned game for the event. Ms Shepard’s class had the “Donut on the String” game. It was easy, but messy to work.