Well the school year ended and we are halfway through week 2 of summer. I took the kiddos to the pool this morning and after being home for an hour and a half, all four kids are bathed and dressed, the two younger ones are napping, older ones watching a movie, the bags are unpacked, the laundry started and I am showered and dressed. My goodness, it is definitely more work getting ready and coming home from the pool then it is being there. But, it wears them out and I love that!!
Anyway summer is going just fine, I am adjusting better and time now to brag on my two oldest!!
Two days before school was out both kinder and 2nd grade had their award ceremonies. I am so proud of my kids. In kinder they sang cute songs and showed a slide show that made me cry. Mrs. Kelley, Dallin's teacher, handed out little awards and talked about each kid, it was so very sweet. They told the kids they could dress up for it and Dallin insisted on going all out, wearing a shirt and tie. I stayed and made him change after, so I could take those clothes home. I love his sweetness!
Waiting to sing their songs
His graduation paper on the wall. It reads, "I like Kindergarten. My teacher was Mrs. Kelley. I learned subtraction. My favorite thing was the robots. I want to learn multiplication."
Mrs. Kelley's class
Kylie and Dallin (for weeks, at the beginning of the year, Dallin kept saying, Kylie can eat and Kylie can talk. Kylie can walk. We kept correcting him and thought he was just wishing his sister could do those things, until finally, aha! We learned there is another adorable Kylie out there. They became good friends.)
Emily's class handed out individual awards. Emily's was the kindest award. She made friends with the new girl, Maddie who also just happens to go to Church with us. Also her teacher said that she didn't have a mean bone in her body and was nice to everyone. I second that whole-heartily. She also received an honor roll medal. They gave the same medal if you made all A's or all A's and B's for the whole year, but she in fact, made all A's for the entire year! She is amazing and we are so so so very proud of our little bookworm. Also, in second grade they still test reading levels, but they cap how high they will test for that grade-level, just like in first grade she maxed out the cap. She is an excellent reader and can't get enough books. I will actually suggest to her to watch some TV every once in a while! :)
Ms. Horbal and Emily
Maddie, Emily and Gavin
Me and my girl
That night was their piano recital. It was Dallin's first and Emily's second (but Emily's 3rd year of piano). They both did great. They performed their memorized pieces just about perfectly and then they both made up their own pieces to play, which were not memorized. I love love love how Dallin wrote his out! He played it wonderfully.
Look at his music for his made up song--so cute!
Amber and the piano lesson kiddos
The two cute master pianists!
By the end of the long and crazy day, everyone had had enough, we had to get out of there fast...
