Names

Ok, so we lead around herds of kids each day and because of the necessity of keeping track of all these kids (haven't lost one yet!) we often end up forming team names. Now these team names started off as typical ski group names devised by 6 year olds, "The Skiers," "The Super Skiers," "The Snow Lifters" etc...

Now those of you that know us better know that we prefer something more... creative than your traditional run-of-the-mill names, so we thought we'd share some of the more interesting ones, that our kids have come up with. We have been:
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The Great Eight (there were only seven of us at the time)

Pigs in a Blanket (don't know where this came from)

The Pictures (this was suggested after turning down the idea of "the tigers" 5 times. They also suggested "the dolphins" to which I said, "lets get away from animals" and a little boy said back, "But the dolphins are a football team."

Fillet Minion (another random one... don't ask me)

The Un-nameables (this was one of Megan's, who is much pickier and therefore couldn't settle on one name when there were ten kids offering suggestions)

The Dudes (another all boy group... though they became the Dudettes because they kept misbehaving)

Team Team (a 6-year-old suggested "team" for the team name to Meg... it did evolve to Team Team Cheetah by the end of the day)

The Sparkles (this was a group where Josh had six four year old girls...needless to say they came up with the name)

The Cry-Babies (a group of Josh's though he never dared call them that to their faces but in his head the team name rang true...)

and The Burritos (another Megan group and it was really short for the Burrito Super Skiers... so the Burritos for short)

Needless to say there have been many others (but the less interesting ones have been omitted to save reading "the wildcats," "the dolphins," or "the cheetahs" Ad nauseam.

P.S. There is great fun to be had with 3-6 year olds by asking them what noise a wildcat makes. I'm not sure on the sound but their faces look like Olive's during her growls in Little Miss Sunshine.