Pre-School Grad Night

Pre-School Graduation Night was full of....

Excited kids who were so proud to show off their daily digs

Big Brothers proud to show off their little brothers

So much so that little brothers were annoyed with big brothers because they were pulling them all around the school by their little arms.

Big nervous smiles and giggles

Garbled words to songs that I couldn't quite understand and teachers working their hardest to keep the crazy group of little people singing and doing hand motions.

Meaningful words spoken by Cindy to the 3 little graduates as their parents cried and I kinda cried along with them.

Overall, it was adorable to see the kids in their familiar surroundings interacting with their teachers. It is a great group of parents and kids and I really hope we find a new house close enough that we don't have to pull Henry this year.

Charlie, who automatically smiled "cheeeeezzzzee" when I held up the camera. I was trying to catch him feeding his goldfish to the dog one-by-one. Yes, we now eat out of plastic bags and paper plates, if I have them. Less dishes = happier mom.

We had a potluck dinner...but the boys were too preoccupied with the sandbox that they didn't care about food. And of course, Henry and sweet, sweet Maddie (sigh) chased each other while Nate and I (again) tried to come up with the right words to discuss an arranged marriage with her parents. Maddie's parents feel the same way about Henry as we do Maddie. They are so cute together!

At first, Charlie really wasn't sure what to make of the sand that got in his sandals. He kept shaking his foot and saying "guck" (yuck?)...but soon got over it and moved on to throwing sand as we ate nearby. I even enjoyed some sand-crusted watermelon. Mmmmm..

Charlie was just in love with the pint-sized sink that he could could turn on himself. If we had one of these at home, he'd be the shiniest, cleanest boy on earth!

When is a toilet ever cute? When it is pint-sized, of course! I made Nate stand next to it for perspective. He thinks I am nuts.

The art wall:

Right before the kids came out to perform, Cindy announced to the large group that some kids are really nervous, so "Becky, you may want to wave really big when Henry comes out."

Then Henry walks out, leading the group, with his shirt tucked in to his underwear nice and tight which is an obvious sign that he went to the bathroom by himself.

I love this little happy guy:

The motley crew:

When it came time to perform, Henry, who has practiced for a full year now, only sang one of the 4 songs. I think he was really tired, and pretty crabby, so he spent most of the program with his head buried in my lap.

But was way more in his element goofing around with his buddy Carson as the other kids performed:

And

TA-DAH!

It is rather large....almost as big as our house...lets just hope it does its job.

Looking forward to starting our 3-day weekend.

Its the start of BEAVER FOOTBALL (which by-the-way) yesterday, Henry asked me as we were loading up in my car, if we could go to Oregon State.....Oh boy, was Nate proud.

Go BEAVS!

Love, B