We have a Preschool Grad!!

Back up the clock to Sept 2010 to see my baby girl on her first day of preschool at Greenwood Elementary. Here she is pretty excited, but pretty nervous as well!
And Look at her NOW!! This little girl has grown SO much over the past 9 months! The timid "perimeter girl" that we have always known is now a wonderful outgoing, delightful kindergartener. Her graduation ceremony was so exciting for her. Of course it took all I had to keep my tears back when she received her certificate of completion. I still don't know how I am going to contain myself when she steps on the school bus for the first time this fall!

Ms. Mindy was Kate's idol for the year. Immediately after the school year began, all play time at home centered around being a teacher just like Ms. Mindy.

And Ms. Pam was the extra set of loving arms in the classroom that little Kate relied on when she had a bit of a rough/emotional day. Yes, the hormones are already flowing. I never thought preschoolers would be comparing backpacks already! And I have to admit, Kate's got me around her finger! After telling me over and over again how she hated having the smallest backpack in her WHOLE CLASS, I broke down & bought her a new one! I need to get a little tougher or I could see this problem requiring some serious cash in the future.

Most of Kate's best buddies were the boys in the class. Here she is standing with a few of them enjoying a popsicle after the ceremony.

After school, we took her to Snook's for ice cream. It didn't take long after moving to Des Moines to find this wonderful little ice cream shop! Yummy yummy!

Congratulations my little princess! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!

April Update!

We are Potty Trained!!! Yea for Will! I had it set in my mind that the boy would be much harder than the girl, but oh was I wrong! This little guy didn't get rolling with it as early as his big sis did, but once he became interested, he flew with it! At 2 1/2 he is about 90% potty trained! No more diapers in our house!!

I had some crazy medical stuff go on with my ears and eyes during April, hence the late posting. But the Lord was great to me and everything has checked out okay. During my down time, Brett was wonderful and took over a lot of the care and entertainment for the kiddos. One day, he and the kids got tattoo happy....Here are just a few of them.

This stinker thought she would wear this one to preschool all week. Well, she almost did as we couldn't get it off her head!!!

On another note, Kate had Kindergarten round up at Clive Elementary. She got to be a kindergartener for an hour 1 afternoon and boy was she excited to go!

She and her neighbor friend Parker went together on the big day. She did great until the Principal asked all the "kindergarteners" to line up. That's when the cold feet set in. So her Little brother thought he'd help her out and went and lined up and attempted to take her place! It was like pulling teeth getting him out of that line of kiddos! In the end, she had a great time making a craft, seeing the kindergarten rooms, and eating a little snack with her new friends!