My favorite thing about you:
How proud you make us
This week you both finished preschool. This is pretty monumental in your short, but amazing lives...
Haley, you finished your last year of preschool, and to say that you loved it wouldn't even come close to how you feel about school. Your enthusiasm for learning is one of my favorite things about you. At just 5 years old, I know you're going to love learning for your entire lifetime. You absorb every piece of information you can get your hands on and store it away for when you can shock me with your knowledge later. If I had a dollar for every time I've asked you "where did you learn that?!" On the one hand I'm sad that you're no longer a preschooler, I'm beyond excited for what the future holds for you - Kindergarten!! If it wouldn't be entirely inappropriate, I would put HUGE expletives in front of that, because that's how excited you're going to be when you figure out that you get to go to school every. single. day. Your hard work and determination to learn makes your dad and I so proud. Often, we go to bed at night talking about you guys and marvel at the things you've told us, what you've learned, things you've done.
Kale, you finished your first of three years of preschool. Dad and I debated back and forth about whether to put you in this year or just wait and let you have two years like your sister. But I'm so thankful you got this first year under your (very favorite baseball) belt. You've learned to write your name, and a whole lot about the social expectations of school. You're pretty great at sitting on your shape and listening to the teacher during circle time, and you never give a hard time when you have to stop playing blocks or cars to do the art activities. You're a pretty laid back guy in class and are happy to roll with the routine. Then there's gym. If you tell me anything about your day at school it will be whether you went to gym or not and what you did there. Never what book the teacher read you. We're proud that you're figuring things out, and that you're a class leader. The other kids in class love to follow you and see what you're up to, you do the coolest things. You've made new friends of your own and play pretty well with them (most of the time, but hey, you're three!). I'm so excited to watch you continue to grow in school and see how far you come by the time you're done with preschool.
As much as I'd we'd like to take full responsibility for their achievements, I feel that I need to be especially thankful to their school, Holy Apostles Preschool. Of all the things I'll miss most when we move, this school is the one thing I really wish we could pack up and take with us. Over the two years we've been a Holy Apostles family, we've been lucky enough to have teachers that are exactly right for our kids and what they most need. I'm especially grateful to Haley's teachers this year, I'm confident that next year in Kindergarten Haley will excel based completely upon the expectations that were set forth this year. Their skilled preparation will absolutely benefit her and allow her to continue to be academically successful. As a mother, I don't think I could ask for more. I'm going to miss the school (almost) as much as the kids!
We are so beyond proud that both kids had such successful school years. They're good kids and they really seem to excel in an educational environment. Nothing makes this teacher over qualified room mother happier. To celebrate (and because Jeff is also on a one week break from his Master's classes), we're off to Bolder for the weekend so that Jeff can run a race. We'll be making a stop at the Lego Store for Kale and the American Girl Store for Haley. We feel that hard work deserves a reward.
And as an idea of how far they've come since the beginning of the school year:
My Goodness!! Slow down!!
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