Last Day of Kindergarten

Today was Miles's last day of kindergarten. He had a fantastic year with his class. Here he is with his teacher, Ms. Anderson, on the first day and then today.

He had such a wonderful year and grew so much, but physically and intellectually. We're so proud of all he has accomplished. His wonderful teachers, Ms. Anderson and Mrs. Douglas, can't be beat. They put together so many nice end-of-year gifts for us: a fun CD including the kids singing some favorite songs; his journal and lots of summer activity pages for keeping up with skills; and a scrapbook of the fun activities with lots of class photos from the year. We will treasure them all!

Now it's time to jump into summer fun. After last week's Festival of Reading, Miles checked out about 12 of the 15 Babymouse books from the library. He's already read about half of them! Yes, even though the cover is pink, boys love Babymouse too!

We just finished a session of swim lessons for both kids. Audrey's working on being able to swim alone and Miles is building strength in the various strokes.

He will be doing the feeder team for the swim team so will have lots of practices to work on those strokes this summer.

And we'll be doing some fun things around town. Yesterday at our library we caught the performance of Otis by the Dollywood Penguin Players. We hear they will be performing Ladybug Girl at the park this summer so we may have to make our first visit!

And we'll be on nest watch too. We see 2 eggs in the nest! Mama Cardinal is very caring, sitting in her nest all the day long. We think she's getting more comfortable with us being on the patio, she doesn't chirp at us as much anymore. Apparently these eggs should hatch in 11-13 days, so we're looking at June 3-5. We're waiting on another very important egg to hatch too: our baby cousin /nephew Sam is due sometime next week! We can't wait to go meet him after he arrives!