Yesterday was the last day of preschool for Ashton (until next year when he gets to go to preschool for one more year). Last night they had their graduation program. OH HOW WILL WE LIVE WITHOUT PRESCHOOL ALL SUMMER!?!?!?! I LOVE PRESCHOOL!!!!! Miss Courtney is THE best and Ashton had so much fun and learned so much!
(This is all three of the classes, not all were in Ash’s class)
The program was short and sweet, unlike ALL other HORRIBLY boring graduation ceremonies I have been to. I guess I have the attention span of a 4 year-old. They did the Pledge of Allegiance (I LOOOOVE that Ashton knows it) and then they sang some cute songs. Emmy was very supportive. She stood the whole time and clapped vigorously after each song.
Here is my sweet little Ashton receiving his diploma…I just keep thinking of “The Incredibles” when Bob freaks out about having to go to Dash’s, what was it, his elementary school graduation or something. He yells, “They keep creating ways to celebrate mediocrity!” Yeah, preschool’s no big deal, but it’s freaking CUTE!!!
Ashton and Emmy had their last swimming lesson on Saturday. Ashton might have improved a tiny bit. He isn’t afraid to do back floats, but that’s about all I can see as progress. Oh well. They got to play a little bit on the last day….
Here is Ashton with his Report Card
As you can see, he “learned” all the skills they taught (I’m a little skeptical)
Emmy was so excited to get her own Report Card
It was pretty accurate
Sadly, besides Nursery, Emmy failed the first class she has ever been in…
They were both very proud of each other, or maybe they were just so happy that swimming lessons are over
Every Saturday morning for the past month, we have taken Ashton and Emmy to swimming lessons at the Provo Rec Center. Ashton hasn’t been loving it but he’ll get in and do what he’s supposed to….
Here he is learning how to do a backfloat.
Here is Emmy’s class….and Emmy NOT participating….
The first day of swimming traumatized her and she hasn’t been in the water since. Oh well. She’s still cute and Josh did get to read a tiny bit….
This is what our front yard looks like most of the time lately….
And this is what our basement looks like….
It’s really the cutest thing and I actually feel like we have a REAL house finally. Is that weird? These little guys all just come busting in and out of the house all day to play Lego Star Wars on the Wii, then ride bikes, then come back and play the Wii. They run upstairs for snacks and drinks and chase Emmy around.
Josh said to me,”You know this is just the beginning.”
I said,”The beginning of what?”
“15 more years of Ashton’s friends being over eating all of our food and Emmy wanting to be around all of them.”
Josh took Ashton to the Fathers and Sons Camp Out last weekend, MINUS the camping this time. They went up, hung out for dinner, S’mores and, I’m sure, some good stories and farting around the campfire, then came home.
This looks so yummy to me….Josh and Mark Jarman made Peach Cobbler in a dutch oven. Josh just confirmed that it was delicious.
Roasting marshmallows….
I dressed Ashton in the same BRIGHT ORANGE hoodie last year for the camp out, to make sure he was easily seen by his dad. Next year I will have to find a glow-in-the-dark hoodie. Ashton was playing with his friends all night, climbing on rocks, throwing rocks in the river, playing on the playground, having a blast. At 10PM he went up to Josh and told him he wanted to go home. So Josh started packing everything up and when he was ready to go to the car, Ashton was gone. He thought he must have gone back to play with his friends so he took the stuff to the car. After loading the car, he went to the kids and asked if they had seen Ashton. They hadn’t. Josh checked EVERYWHERE. He went to the playground, to the river (oh yes, I was freaking out when Josh told me this story), and checked in EVERY tent. It had been about 15 minutes since Josh started searching and he says that he was 2 seconds away from full-on panicking and organizing a search party. He decided to check the car one more time. Welp, our perfect little boy was sitting in his car seat, all buckled up, just waiting and waiting. He was even in there before Josh got to the car the first time. PHEW!!!!
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Next year I will have to find a glow-in-the-dark hoodie. Ashton was playing with his friends all night, climbing on rocks, throwing rocks in the river, playing on the playground, having a blast. At 10PM he went up to Josh and told him he wanted to go home. So Josh started packing everything up and when he was ready to go to the car, Ashton was gone. He thought he must have gone back to play with his friends so he took the stuff to the car. After loading the car, he went to the kids and asked if they had seen Ashton. They hadn’t. Josh checked EVERYWHERE. He went to the playground, to the river (oh yes, I was freaking out when Josh told me this story), and checked in EVERY tent. It had been about 15 minutes since Josh started searching and he says that he was 2 seconds away from full-on panicking and organizing a search party. He decided to check the car one more time. Welp, our perfect little boy was sitting in his car seat, all buckled up, just waiting and waiting. He was even in there before Josh got to the car the first time. PHEW!!!!