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Our Little Grad!

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The madness is coming to an end! Ava did her final 5th grade presentation this past week, and G graduated from K-Prep on Thursday. It's hard to believe that we are going to be fully done with daycare in a few months, and we'll have an elementary AND middle schooler on our hands. I mentioned to Scott that we're going to have TWO kids with homework next year...argh!

G got a lovely, sparkly feather (painted on his arm) and a new horse named Sweetfoot (??) on Tuesday night - I love our Tuesday nights at Carbone's!



Ava did a great job for her presentation on "Just One More Time" (a collection of all of the things she wished she could do just one more time at Red Pine before leaving.) She and a classmate also did a presentation on Christopher Columbus. My crazy kid decided to sit on the floor for the 2nd half of the presentation...


The 5th graders all paint a tile that is permanently posted at Red Pine. Ava (look at those muscles!) showed me where hers is...right in the front entryway!



Getting ready for K-Prep graduation!



The kids were supposed to take their certification/diploma and shake Hannah's hand...G forgot about that last part! Haha!


The kids had so much fun throwing their hats in the air!



G and Ben call each other "brothers" all of the time...but even G knows it would be a bad idea if they were in the same classroom next year. They are T-R-O-U-B-L-E when they are together!




This just made me laugh...we always get reports on how G did during the day. Last week he went through a rough patch, and his teacher just wrote "OMG" for how G was feeling during the day!


G was invited to a super fun birthday party at a gym...he was able to try rock climbing for the first time and he loved it!!


Ava's last day of 5th grade is only three days away...hard to believe how quickly this year flew by!

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