Last Days of School (belated)

Natalie has been out of school two weeks now and Will has been out for three weeks. I thought I'd go ahead and post some pictures from each of their last days of school (better late than never). Both of them missed the majority of their last weeks due to illness. Will made it back for his last day and Nat made it back for the last day and a half. Here are the pictures starting with Will.

Will's last day was Friday, May 18th. He has attended his Mother's Day Out program for the past two years. His wonderful teachers pictured below taught his 1 year old class and his 2 year old class this year. They are so special to us...we love you Mrs. Monica and Mrs. Alice! We are really going to miss them next year when Will joins Natalie at LCA.

To celebrate Will's last day, we headed to the snow cone stand after we picked his sister up from school. Luckily, the crowds weren't too big (this place is ALWAYS hoppin' during the warm weather) and we were able to get our cool treats!

This is Will enjoying his "White Hawaiian" snow cone...coconut and cream! YUMMY!

Here is Natalie on her last day...May 25th. I cannot believe she will be in kindergarten this coming fall. She had a fabulous year in PK5 thanks to Mrs. Redden (seen in picture below). What a great woman...an excellent teacher, encourager, and Christian example for my little girl! We will miss her sooo much next year when she heads to another school in the area to teach kindergarten. We wish her the best!

Natalie received two awards the last day of school. One from the librarian for "excellent library behavior" and one from Mrs. Redden for being the "best hug giver." Natalie was so thrilled to get this special recognition!

The theme for Nat's class party on the last day was a "Pancake Party." And guess who the world's best pancake flipper is?!? Erick got nominated to cook all the pancakes for the kiddos and he did a wonderful job. Look at that griddle...8 flapjacks at a time...those kiddos were scarfin' them down!

To celebrate Nat's last day of school, we headed out to a baseball game that evening (we have a local minor league team). We had no sooner picked up our hot dogs and cokes, then it started to rain (see next picture).

Luckily, we had prepared for the rain with umbrellas and ponchos. We waited for about an hour and then they called the game. The kiddos seemed a bit dissappointed, but playing in the rain was fun too! We are going to go to another game tomorrow night...we are praying there will be no rain to keep us from the fun, food and festivities!