Amber and Dan's Blog: Last day and "Graduation"

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Last day and "Graduation"

Megan's last day of Joy School for the year was Thursday (May 17). She has grown up in so many ways over the course of the school year and we couldn't be more happy with the sweet girl she is becoming. She is napping only about once a week these days and loves to go up to quiet time all by herself, choose a toy or two, and head into her room to play quietly (or not so quietly, but contained-ly). We've even moved to letting her leave her door unlocked during quiet time and she's pretty good at staying up there until quiet time is over.

First Day last fall, Aug. 30, 2011

Last Day--May 17, 2012

I had a great time with our Joy School group this year--there were 6 families involved and I really enjoyed our group of kids and moms. Megan will be with a new joy school group next year, so it was a little bittersweet to close this chapter after 2 years with most of the kids!
We wanted to have a little "graduation" party to celebrate the end of the school year, so we did it Saturday afternoon (May 19) when the Dads could come. It was pretty adorable. My friend Ashley made little caps for all the kids (complete with tassels) and they walked in one at a time to Pomp and Circumstance to receive their certificate from Shelly (the hostess). Then we went through each of the kids and had all the teacher-moms say something they appreciated about them. Most of them mentioned Megan's love of coloring and her enthusiasm for art projects and also her kindness. I mentioned that I loved her little acts of service (like Saturday morning when she got Daddy a bottle of water all by herself and took it out to him while he mowed the lawn).
Congratulations to Megan on a great year!

Getting the hats on...