Evan's Kindergarten Graduation

Well, he did it!! Evan is officially a kindergarten graduate! They had their ceremony on Friday and he was soooo thrilled to walk out that door after graduation knowing he had the whole summer off from school!

I can't believe this year is already done. It flew by! Evan did well and is looking forward to 1st grade next year. He did especially well in reading, he reads WAY above his grade level and received an award at graduation for his reading ability. He is still working on settling down and learning to focus on his work but we expect that will come with time. Overall he had a great year--he learned a lot, loved his teacher, and made a lot of new friends!

Enjoy some of the pics I took at graduation. The first is his "official" graduation portrait! (We didn't have these when *I* graduated from kindergarten!!)

The Graduation Portrait

All of the kindergarteners

Receiving his award for reading

With his proud Grandmas!

With the school principal

Evan and Mommy

Spring Pic

Just wanted to share the boys spring pic they had taken together. This was taken at school recently. They do spring portraits at their school as well as the fall ones and I couldn't resist asking the photographer to take a picture of them together!

Cuteness alert!!

Bounce House Fun!!

Evan and N'yonna

Cameron, Connor and Ryan

Evan enjoying himself!

Today we (the school PTO) rented a bounce house for all of the kids as a reward for doing so well on their fall fundraiser. The kids had a blast with it and it was fun to watch them enjoying themselves. The only bad part was that about an hour and a half it before it was to end it started pouring rain and I was stuck outside watching the bounce house as we still had kids yet to go in. I'm still drying out! LOL

Today the letter D was brought to you by....EVAN!!

Today the kindergarteners had their annual Alphabet Parade. The kids each get to pick their own letter and then create a costume to go with it. Evan picked the letter "D". I think he picked it because he wanted to be a dog but we found Connor's old dinosaur Halloween costume in the attic so we used that and he just carried a stuffed dog. And a friend suggested "Dunkin Donuts" which we though was a genius idea (Hi Brenda!!) so we had to incorporate that into his costume!

So, here are some pics of my little "D" boy...

Pool's Open!!

The boys have been waiting since last October for the chance to open up our pool again. Finally this past week they have gotten their wish. And now they will be shriveled up little prune-like things until fall! There is almost nothing they like as much as swimming. And mom and dad quite enjoy it too! A few years ago we weren't sure if we'd ever put in a pool but now that we've had it for 3 years we can't imagine spending a summer without it. We even splurged for a pool heater this year so we can lengthen the pool season. A pool in NY is such a terrible investment, we might as well get as much use out of it as we can.

So, here are the first pool pics of the season.....there will undoubtedly be LOTS more to follow over the next 3 months!

Evan & Connor

Connor

Evan jumping in!

Riley & Evan

My New Pool Boy, Ayden! Connor and the shark

Evan & Jacob

Isn't this cute??

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"When I grow up I want to be an animal breeder..."

Huh? An animal breeder? Does he know what animal breeders DO?? Yep, in my son's kindergarten class play last week his big line was "When I grow up I want to be an animal breeder!" And yes, he wrote that line himself. His teacher asked him what he wants to be when he grows up and that was his response. He did have a couple other lines but when I read his script and saw that one I couldn't help what the other parents would think we do at our house. I knew he had written it himself, he talks about it all the time. Usually it's a "chihuahua breeder" but this was close enough that I knew it came from him. His teacher's response..."that's what makes kindergarten plays fun!" Oh well, he did get a chuckle from the parents....all the other kids wanted to be boring things--firefighters, helicopter pilots, chefs, teachers. I am so proud of my boy, the animal breeder!

Oh, and after the play the principal came over and asked him, "Evan, what does an animal breeder do?" I was a little nervous about what he would say....and then he said "They put a boy animal and a girl animal together"...and then he pauses...."and then they lay an egg." Phew! And then he looked at her with this look of "duh!" Gotta love that boy!

The play went great though! The kids were all so cute and had a lot of fun. Nana, Grandpa, and Grandma were able to come and watch the play and then join us in Evan's classroom for cookies and punch.

I can't believe kindergarten is almost over. Sniff, sniff...