Preschool Graduate

What better day to pick than Friday the 13th for Preschool Graduation? It is pretty scary how fast these kids are growing up after all. Emilie was one of about 40 kids to graduate from Step Ahead Learning Center. Emilie is in the Lion class and they also graduated children from the Tigers and Zebras.

We were dazzled with several songs: The CBA's, Idaho Counties Song, Tooty-tah, and several more. Emilie sang and danced with the best of them...expecially in the Tooty-tah song. For some reason she was on a winking kick and was winking at everyone. Kevin, Me, Miss Lety her former teacher from the Panda class (1/2 year olds) I had a pretty good spot for filming so I filmed and put together several clips posted in a video below. It's longish and the intent was for the Grandparents to have a glimpse of the ceremony since they couldn't make it. I won't hate you if you can't make it through the whole thing...as always it's much better in person.

I was reminded how big my kids are getting though. We're no longer that couple with the "really young children" anymore. No babies, no toddlers, not even pre-schoolers now that Emilie has graduated. We have two school-aged kids.

Graduation also means we will be saying goodbye to Step Ahead Learning Center in a few weeks. We've been going there since Jack was 18 months old...I'll let you do the math. I'm not going to miss tuition or having to drive to two  facilities for pick-up/drop off every day but I will miss the wonderful staff. April, Lety, Rosa, Anna, and several others who have moved on from the program over the years (Maria and Loretta comes to mind). Thankfully Twin is still a small enough town to bump into people and Facebook works pretty great for keeping folks updated. Still, it is time for us to move on to the next adventure. Emilie is more than ready for sure. Monday morning after graduation she told me I could drop her off at Kindergarten and was a bit disappointed when she found out she'd have to wait until September

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I’m a Big Girl Now!

Today was Emilie’s first day of nursery school.

She’s only 18 months old (actually closer to 19 now) and we debated back an forth whether or not to send her now or when she turned two. We ended up going with now since she always wants to stay and play with all the children when I drop Jack off. Other than him she really has no other playmates, so the social aspect is good for her too. Plus, I’m hoping it will boost her little immune system a bit to be around more ‘foreign’ germs. Finally, I signed up for a 1/2 marathon in May so the four mornings she’s there I’ll have kid free time to train.

Her teacher is Miss Whitney. She’s in the Panda Class. I was told she had a GREAT first day. She had no problem with the drop off, and barely noticed I was gone. She got to color and really like playing with munchkins her size. When I picked her up they were singing ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’….well more like the teacher was singing and there was lots of screeching, babbling, and arm waving during the e-i-e-i-o part. She was all smiles and giggles.

Can’t believe how big my baby is getting!

School Pictures

Jack’s very first class pictures have arrived…