Easter festivities and Chester the Raccoon

We got to have Chester the Raccoon come and stay with us the week before Easter.  Chester gets to go home with someone in Brady's class every week and they get to do fun things and keep a journal about his adventures.  (We had Miss Raccoon visit us back in the fall.)

Here's some fun things we did with Chester while he visited.

Had a popcorn party sleepover on the air mattress the nigh Brooklyn and Madison were babysitting the boys while we were at the ball.

Chester helping put Brady's stilts together

Brady is getting better on the stilts

Collin coloring Easter eggs

Chester helped Brady color his eggs too

 We went for a walk at the parade grounds on base.  It is a big open grassy area with a little gazebo and some canons, flags and other stuff as well as a track to walk around and some really pretty trees.  All the trees were blossoming and it was a beautiful day.
I took the chance to take a couple pictures of the boys while we were there.

Brady in a tree with Chester

Monkey in a tree

Daddy with the boys in the gazebo

My big monkey

 Brady's class also had an Easter egg hunt at school and so Collin, Chester and I came to school to watch and then take Brady home with us after it was over.

Brady with Chester and his eggs in his bucket

Brady and his friend Jack

Some of Brady's class after the hunt

Here's one of the pages of Chester's journal. 
Brady drew a picture of him and Chester and it was really good. 
He even put stripes on the tail and circles around the eyes. 

Brady really enjoyed writing in the journal and having Chester visit.  What a fun thing to do for the kids.  When I go back to teaching kindergarten again, I might have to steal the idea!