First day of school.

August 17, 2016.

First day of 2nd grade for Madelyn and first day of kindergarten for Sawyer. We have two elementary schoolers. This is such a milestone for our family. I still have to pinch myself to believe it.

I did not attend the post first day drop off Boo Hoo / Yahoo event for kindergarten parents. I had a run to attend to! But, I also wasn't sure whether I was a boo hoo or a yahoo...I think a little of both.

Here's to a good school year for everyone!

Banner day for Sawyer.

After getting stung yesterday twice in the neck by a wasp at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, sweet Sawyer had a much better day today. In fact, you could say he had a banner day! He...

a) Received his kindergarten teacher assignment. And, it's official. He has Mrs Murray! We are so excited for him and know he's going to have an awesome year. (See previous post re: Mrs Murray.)

b) Leveled up AGAIN in swimming lessons! He swam 25 yards backstroke all by himself and passed up to level 6. Way to go, my little buddy!

c) Attended a LEGO Mini Build with Madelyn this afternoon at the LEGO Store. They each built a cute little apple complete with worm, or in Madelyn's case a caterpillar because caterpillars are less gross than worms.

Happy days all around. Hope yours was good, too!

Preschool party.

Sawyer's last day of preschool was Wednesday. His end of year party included all things three- and four-year old kids love -- GIANT bubbles, playground time, snacks, and popsicles.

Mrs. Bonney (with her two favorite Anderson children).

Mrs. Bonney is one of Sawyer's two teachers. She's a good balance of organized, fun, silly, and genuinely caring. 

Boys having snacks in the tiniest piece of shade on the playground. Thank goodness there was room for five kiddos!

Popsicle faces.

Everything in life is better if it includes a popsicle. It might have been warm but it was a fun send off to Summer. I guess you could call this our last day of school picture!

Happy Summer, everyone!

Kindie program.

The last day of school is almost here. Sawyer's last day was actually today. (See post to follow.) Madelyn's last day is tomorrow. But, today was the long awaited Kindie Program.

"We all had a vacation and we grew, grew, grew into first graders!" 

There were four songs and a "play". Each kindie made their own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom shirt so they were dressed appropriately for that song. Madelyn got to be an A! 

The top picture shows all fifteen of Madelyn's classmates from this year. They have become such a close-knit group of kids. The assistant principal commented at the opening of the performance on how amazing it was to see how much these little people have grown over the year. And, it's so true!

Proud Papa.

Proud Grammy and Papa.

Seriously, how is is our Mile High Madelyn done with kindergarten already?! Only twelve more years until high school graduation. I don't even want to think about that!

Mrs. Murray.

I might be biased but Mrs. Murray is the world's greatest kindergarten teacher. We've had such a great year and she does an amazing job with her kindies. I thought it was going to be hard to top our experience with Madelyn's preschool teacher from last year but Mrs. Murray is right up there. 

Mrs. Preciado.

Mrs. Preciado is Mrs. Murray's aide and an ever present figure in the kindergarten classrooms. We'll absolutely miss her, too, next year.

I'm hopeful that when Little Brother enters kindergarten (in two years) that he can have the same wonderful guidance as Madelyn did this year.

One more day, tomorrow, but it's just the year-end party. Then it's well earned time off for fun, sun, and fun in the sun! Thank you, Ben Franklin Academy, for an awesome year. First grade, we're ready for you...in three months!

Mini Madelyn

This little astronaut's name is Mini Madelyn according to the real Madelyn.

Today's letter was A and on Thursday we're supposed to bring something that starts with the letter A to sharing time.

Pre school is going great!