First school lunch

Since we beat the teacher by a few minutes this morning, I snapped a few pictures outside the classroom door.

 

Today was my first time to go eat lunch with the girls at school. And what's better than a birthday lunch. The first two weeks of school parents are not allowed to go, as the teachers sit with them and get them used to rules and expectations. After that point, parents and family can come up anytime. At their school if a parent comes to eat then you have to sit on the stage with them or out in the courtyard. Since this was the first time I had gone, we ate up on the stage. It was absolutely hysterical because they LOVED it!! Their class is actually sitting right in the front row so they could easily see them the whole time. The class as a whole was actually quite distracted by us too. The girls were constantly waving and telling me who was who and the kids were waving back. You would have thought they were movie stars waving to their fans. They were giggling and silly the whole time. So much fun to see.

Subway was the birthday lunch of choice

happy girls!

trying to get a picture of the whole class behind them

just having a little fun

"Mom, can you come back tomorrow?!"

It was a lot of fun! I told them I would try to come once a month to bring them lunch :)

Time to go back to class

byeeeeee!!!!

It was definitely an entertaining lunch with these two. Looking forward to the next time.

On our way to school

Birthday morning fun! New beanie boos in hand and ready for the walk (they walk with a different beanie boo every day to school)

Andrew is usually just waking up when we are heading out the door but even he was excited about all the birthday commotion.

 

My sweet 6 year olds!!

such a good sport when his sisters are being silly

off we go

Got to school a little early and even beat the teacher so Andrew decided he was going to sit in for the morning story.

There are 6 classroom of kindergartens with anywhere from 15-17 kids. Each class sits on their on line in the morning before the official bell rings and they go to their respective classes.

If he could have stayed with them, I think he would have. (no shoes and all. haha)

Love you girls!!

Happy 6th Birthday!!

Andrew's first day back to Powersports

Here we go. Andrew's first day back to Powersports. He is heading into the 3 year old room with Ms. Annette. She is new to the school but we got to meet her the previous week and are really excited. She has 8 children, five of whom are boys!!! Andrew can be a handful and he has a few small querks you have to understand to keep things sailing smoothly. After meeting Ms. Annette, I KNEW he was going to have a great year. If she can handle that many kids (and boys for that matter), surely she's experienced a boy like our Andrew.

That's my little man!

First year with his own back pack that he picked out. Last year we did use a small backpack but it was used more as a diaper bag. He didn't have much attachment to it except that he knew his diapers and snacks were in it. It is so AWESOME that this stubborn little guy decided a few weeks before school started that he was FINALLY going to start using the potty. He has been very intent on NOT using it that I thought it would still be a little while. Anyone who knows this child knows that it if he has his mind set on something it's quite difficult to change it. The nice thing about him being "older" was that once he decided he was going to potty train that was it. He still uses a pull up at night but didn't even need it for naps (which are still 2-3hrs) almost instantly. wahoo!! Really was starting to think he WOULD be that kid that went to kinder in a diaper! Thank you buddy for not making that a reality. All joking aside, we are really proud of you buddy!!

doesn't get much cuter!

I think he's ready!!

 

*update: When we got to school we found out that he was actually bumped up to the 4 year old room. Still the same teacher but a lot of the kids this year in the 3 year old room are young 3s so a handful of them were moved up. The school as a whole this year seems to have "younger" (spring birthdays) kids in each group. Andrew is February so he's not that much older but he's a bigger kid and does well in class so I'm excited about this change. Now I know he will be able to go straight to the 5 year old room next year without any difficulties! yaay! 

Last day of Preschool!!

This was their last day of preschool May 31, 2013.

Although both girls seem so excited about going to "kindergarten" in the fall, they did get upset over the fact that most of the kids in their class we probably wouldn't see anymore. At Powersports everyone comes from all different areas including, Bryan.

Since so many teachers have been involved with our kids over the last year we decided to make everyone a little something. A new tumbler with cookies, mints, a small gift card and hand written notes.

Even included their school picture on the back of the note

Ready for our last day!

My little readers!! It's hard to tell in this picture but the large collection of stars is all the books they read to their teacher between January and May. I had no idea that they had read so many more than the other kids in their class. They only go to school twice a week so I assumed some of the other kids would have much more. They LOVED to read! Always so proud with every book they read. These were mostly level 1 books with some level 2's toward the end of the year.  I sure hope this continues. I am not a "reader" and don't want to pass that on to them.  

Andrew couldn't help but get in their too ;)

These were all the kids headed to Kindergarten! Obviously all of their class but there were also a handful from the 4 year class that would also be going. It turned out to be such a great thing that our girls were able to be in the 5year old class because they learned so much more than coming out of the 4 year old room. Technically due to Andrews bday he should head to kinder after the 4 year old room but I hope to bump him straight from 3year old room to the 5 year old room so that he too will get the benefit of Ms.Mimi and her class. We really loved her and the girls had a great year!