Last Day of Young Children's World

Last Thursday was Avery and Kendall's last day of school at YCW for the year. The last day is always fun, but emotional. I always get so attached to their teachers and I'm never ready to give them up and move on. But now that Avery's been going there for 3 yrs, I know that I'll grow to love the next set of teachers just as much because they've all been great. I'm excited for Kendall to move up to the 2's and for Avery to start Pre-K there next year. Kendall's class got to go out and fly a kite on the last day, but Avery said they didn't really do anything special-- who knows? It's always so much fun though to go pick them up and to see their end-of-year gifts from the teachers and to get their "Me" books with all their precious little pictures of things they did during the year. This year Avery got a "YCW friends" t-shirt with a picture of her and about 1/2 the kids in her class on it. Kendall got a sand pail decorated with her name and filled with bubbles, playdough, sunglasses, a beach ball, and more. I took a few pictures of Avery and Kendall with their teachers and of them playing at the "little" playscape after school. Now they are off to what I am calling "Mommy Preschool." I decided that since there is no summer session at YCW this year, we are going to do a sort of homeschool preschool 2 days a week to keep us busy and give us fun, interesting things to do. Wish me luck! I'm sure there will be a post on that later :)

Kendall and her main teacher, Ms. Sarah. These 2 loved each other!

Avery with her outstanding teachers, Mrs. Patty and Mrs. Christi

Kendall loves to go down the star slide

Sliding together. I don't know what Avery was looking at so intently!

Kendall had fun looking all the pics of her and her friends in her "Me" book

All the big kids like sitting on the stars more than sliding, Avery included. But she spends most of her playtime now in the big 2 story playscape and running around with her friends.

Young Children's World Spring Show

Monday night Avery and Kendall had their YCW Spring Show. The theme this year was "Down on the Farm." Kendall's group sang the school song, "So Glad That God Made Me", and 5 little songs about scarecrows. The teachers painted all their little faces like scarecrows and they wore these precious sunflower hats. I have to brag a little because Kendall's teachers told me that she would be front and center because she knew all the songs and hand motions. I was kind of nervous that she would freeze up on the stage with all the commotion, but she did great! She smiled, sang a lot of the words, did hand motions,and clapped after every song. It was precious! Avery's group also sang the school song and "So Glad That God Made Me", and then sang 5 songs about farm animals. They all wore farm animal hats-- Avery chose a duck and insisted on wearing it low "like Daddy wears his hat." She just acted like an old pro (which she is since this is her 3rd yr to perform) and sang all her songs really loud and did most of the hand motions . . . until she started doing a dance because she had to go potty. I made the horrible mistake of believing her when she insisted before the program that she DID NOT need to go potty, and sure enough, she really started feeling it during the next to last song. After a minute or two of trying her best to hold it, she started crying and I knew exactly what had happened. So she ran over and sat on her teacher's lap during the last song and then I quickly ushered her out of the auditorium to the bathroom to get cleaned up. It was heartbreaking because in the bathroom she asked me, "Well Mommy, are you still proud of me?" Talk about guilt trip! But I guess it was a good lesson for her on why she should always try to go instead of arguing. We reassured her all the way home that she still did a great job, we were still proud of her, and we still thought she looked cute-- even when she was pee-peeing on stage! Definitely a night to remember!

Our two little performers

Avery and a good friend from her class

the Toddlers (Kendall is front and center in the skirt w/ white trim)

My precious little scarecrow

Our duckie performer

Waving at her Mimi who was up front taking pictures

Avery is on the front row, 4th from the right