Graduate

Our big boy graduated from Elementary School! I can hardly believe it. I can so vividly remember his first day of preschool. His first day of Kindergarten literally seems like it was about 2 years ago.

I cried for several days leading up to his graduation. I can’t really explain why I was so emotional, but I think I was just really nostalgic. And realizing just how fast it really did seem to go by as I looked back on the last several years. I felt some guilt that I didn’t stop to enjoy that time as much as I should have. And there was also just a lot of gratitude. I’m just so thankful for the time I’ve had with him and for the wonderful young man that he has become. I really am so excited for him as he embarks on Middle School and on to the rest of his life. He has such a bright future ahead of him and I can’t wait to see how God uses him.

Here he is walking in to the celebration.

(Side note: the boy HATES to dress up. He always wears tall black socks and was so glad when he realized he could still wear his socks with his khakis. He said that was the last ounce of dignity he had left :) Ha! He is so funny! But, I thought he looked SO handsome. The un-tucked shirt was a compromise :)

Being called out as a member of the Principal’s Leadership Team

Getting the Presidential Award. He got a pin and a letter and certificate signed by President Obama.

Getting his diploma from his teacher. We love her so much!

After the celebration, we went to check out he and his friend’s award winning Science Fair project.

Then we went back to his classroom for the Author’s Tea. There was cake and drinks and the kids each got a chance to read from some of their writings from the year.

I love the poems he chose to read. I will post them here sometime. They are great!

He has the most wonderful friends and they all have so much fun together. Here he is with one- they were chillin’, listening to the other kids’ readings. So thankful God brought  us here to this school!

After the author’s tea, we were treated to a hamburger cook-out. Here’s he and I posing for the camera. He  gets a serious kick out of rarely taking a normal picture for his mom ;)

After we ate, all of the graduates divided into teams and had a fun field day. We hung around for most of the day just enjoying watching him and his buddies play around.

Here’s a couple pics from the games.

Here he is wearing the big clown pants as his teammates threw wet sponges into them.

Another one of the games was Polo. Here he is using his sister’s pink unicorn stick horse and a plastic baseball bat to play beach ball polo. It was so funny. I got such a kick out of those big kids running around with their stick horses! Especially Big B with his pink unicorn. He was mighty proud of it too :)

What a wonderful, memorable day!!