Last Day of School 2017

Yesterday was the last day of school for Peyton and Charlie.  We now officially have a Kindergartener - which I can't believe!  Peyton and Charlie both had a great year at St. John. Peyton has been a little emotional the past few weeks when talking about the last day of school.  She will start at a new school next year and will miss her teachers and friends.  I fully expected her to be in tears when I picked her up yesterday but she was happy and excited!  She told her teacher that she cried on the last day of school last year and she wasn't going to do it this year!  She had a moment after we walked out of school but it was short lived.  I have a lot of mixed emotions about her starting kindergarten next year.  While I know she will do great and I'm excited to see how she will grow, it's a little bittersweet to have our first child starting grade school.  It's the beginning of a new chapter for our family and I'm not sure I'm quite ready for it!

Peyton took her camera to school so she could take pictures of all her friends.

First day vs. last day (bottom left).  Peyton chose to wear the same dress!

Last week Peyton's teacher had an award ceremony for the class.  Peyton was given the award for "Encouraging Friend".  We are so proud of the kind girl that she is!

I loved these silhouettes of all the kids that were graduating! 

Preschool Christmas Program

Last night Peyton and Charlie had their school Christmas Program.  It was too cute!  It was so fun watching them perform and we are so proud of how well they did!

A few pre-show pictures

I honestly didn't have high expectations for Charlie but he shocked me with how great he did!! He was so stinkin cute!

Peyton loves to sing with a lot of passion!  She was so excited to be on stage!

First Day of School 2016

Peyton and Charlie had a great first day at their new preschool!

Backpacks were on well before we left the house!

 

I think Charlie's nerves started to set in a little bit...

 Charlie was not interested in posing for pictures

 Little sis had to get in on the action too!

Last day of Preschool 2016

Last Thursday was Peyton and Charlie's last day of school.  Since we recently moved this was their last day at The Brentwood Early Childhood Center. We are all really sad to be leaving such a great school. We loved the teachers, director and friends we made there and will miss them all very much!

At drop off in the morning, I saw our Parents as Teachers facilitator and she gave me a huge hug and got teary which made me get teary.  She has been with us since Peyton was 9 months old and was a huge support to me last year when I was pregnant with Nora and preparing for what we thought was going to be a move across the country.  As I walked out to my car I had a hard time holding back the tears.  It hit me hard that we were leaving a wonderful school and community. I know we made the right choice and will be happy in our new community but it didn't make saying goodbye any easier.  Of course the good part is that we can keep in touch with everyone and hopefully will but it won't be quite the same.  At pickup I got Charlie first and we said goodbye to his teacher.  Miss Shelley had both kids and also lived in our neighborhood.  We loved her and enjoyed seeing her so much over the past two years.  We gave her hugs and then went down the hall to get Peyton. I found her curled up on one of her teacher's lap in tears.  She understood she wouldn't be coming back to this school and was just so sad to say goodbye.  Although I question whether she would have cried even if we were going back next year.  She loves school. Her tears set off a chain reaction.  She gave her teacher, Miss Katie, a big hug and burst into more tears which made Miss Katie and me cry.  Then Miss Shelley came around the corner and Peyton gave her a big hug and started crying all over again and she was in tears too. It was much more emotional than I expected!  A friend posted a quote from one of her kid's graduation that I thought summed it up perfectly: "How lucky are we to have something that makes it so hard to say goodbye?"  We were lucky to have two years at BECC!

Charlie and Miss Shelley

Peyton and Miss Katie

Peyton, Miss Jamie and Miss Katie

Peyton and Charlie with Miss Shelley

 It's amazing how much the kids have grown and changed in the past nine months!