Received a phone call from Andie early last week. She wanted to alert me the Mini's had their annual Buckner Bear Run on Friday. With a few shifts of our calendar, we were ready to watch the Mini's run laps to raise money for their school.
This is Buckner Elementary School's only fund raiser. It is great exercise for the kids. We pledge a flat amount for each of the Mini's and then just enjoy the laps. Michael takes the day off from his paying job and volunteers to direct the running of six of the classes throughout the day. They schedule him so he directed the running the Hayden and Bailey's classes. Andie was able to sneak away from her job for a few hours to watch the Mini's and help as needed with their classes. The day was beautiful. Great day for running...and observing.
Hayden's class ran outside at 9:30am. These are pictures of Hayden warming up, running, walking and cooling down. Hayden has taken some running classes and participated in two 5K runs with his dad over the last two years. He is just fun to watch. He paces himself and runs a nice steady run the first 15 minutes. Then he walks for a couple of laps in anticipation of a big finish the last two minutes. At that point he gets into speed mode and finishes out the last two minutes at a brisk pace.
This year, after each class ran, they went back to the terraced areas on the school yard to get a Popsicle to rehydrate. The school was promoting treating each other kindly last week. While the kids ate their Popsicles, they talked to them about the importance of complimenting and saying nice things to and about each other. Each child was given a marker, a half sheet of typing paper and a piece of tape. They were to write their names on the paper and tape it to the back of their shirt. Then each child was to find the child sitting closest to them and write something kind and nice about the person sitting next to them on their piece of paper. A short amount of time was given so only a couple of friends could write on your paper and you only had time to write on a couple of friends paper. This picture is Andie writing on Hayden's paper after his friends did. This was a great idea in my book.
Bailey's class would run in the gym. This too was great as she ran 10:25 and the sun was beginning to warm things up. This moved Michael indoors and he would remain there as the afternoon temperature climbed into the 80's. Bailey was happy to find Claude by the bleachers. She ran to him and asked him to hold her glasses while she ran and then received the requisite hugs. The girl does love her 'Pa' time.
The other pictures are of her warming up with Michael in front in the yellow jacket, Andie taking her picture as she gets a hash mark on her back for completing a round of the court, Michael tying Bailey's shoes and Bailey running laps.
In years past, the children all had a piece of white typing paper with their name on it safety pinned to their back to collect their hash mark for completing a round of running. This year each child was given a white t-shirt and a permanent marker was used to make hash marks on the back of their shirt as they finished their lap. Nice memento of this year's run. This is Claude counting Bailey's hash marks. Andie is going to put each child's name on their shirt and the total number of laps they accomplished.
This is Bailey during the Popsicle rehydration and writing of compliments. There is also one of Andie saying good-bye when she had to head back to work and a friend writing a compliment on Bailey's paper.
This is just cute, very cute. One of the little girls wrote on Bailey's paper that Bailey was 'allsome'. I'm sure she was trying to spell 'awesome' but her misspelling fits Miss Bailey to a T.
We ended our day with the Marx family at Cracker Barrel for dinner. Great run Mini's!!
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