End of School Year Activities

With spring came the opportunity to wear t-shirts and shorts to school.  But you may also notice that Reese is sporting a backpack and a big smile.  April brought a huge new development when Reese changed schools and started attending Central Christian Childcare.  One requirement at the new school was that she had to bring a backpack every day.  This pleased her to no end.  Her transition was incredibly smooth and all of us have been happy ever since.

For Callie, like for elementary school students across the nation, the end of the year means activities, parties, and movies. We are pretty sure the heavy learning stops a couple of weeks after spring break and everyone goes into cruise control. Sarah had the opportunity to volunteer at Callie's class picnic, which in part meant that she helped escort the kids from Cassidy to Ecton Park and back again. It sounds like an easy task until you take into account the young boy who was only a few inches shorter than Sarah and outweighed her that managed to fall and hurt himself both coming and going. This made the whole experience much more dramatic, although you would never guess it from all the smiles here.

Meanwhile John had the opportunity to visit Callie's classroom to watch the end of the year show that Ms. Wood had organized.  Callie and her classmates performed all sorts of songs and other acts revolving around Dr. Seuss's Oh The Places You Go.  Here you can see Callie singing "The Future Looks Good to Me" along with the other kids.  It was a lot of fun to see how much the kids enjoyed talking about what they might be doing when they grew up.  It is crazy to think how much Callie matured over the course of first grade.  By the end of the year she was reading, adding, subtracting, and singing her way into summer.

The end of the year also brought a teacher development day for Reese's school which meant that she got to spend the day with Sarah.  It was so much fun to be able to get one-on-one time together.  They ran errands, had lunch together, and started preparing for our summer trip to California.  Like all mother-daughter dates the two had to take a quick selfie to capture the fun and create a positive memory that will help counter-balance the teenage years.