Kindergarten Graduation...

...I believe may be comparable to what I will be feeling the day my girls graduate from high school.

I remember Ella's teacher sending home a welcome note at the beginning of the year stating, "that they will change so much this year, we won't believe they are the same children that they were at the beginning of the year." Kind of a bold statement, I thought. Actually scared and bothered me a bit, but a month before school ended, I knew exactly what he was talking about. They had changed, they were completely different in a wonderful, yet sad way! So dependent, so grown-up, so aware of others! (most of the time ;)

Ella made snicker doodles to bring to class for the big day.

I made class gifts for her two teachers that turned out super cute! It's a picture of a quilt that the class made for a school auction. They made $2000.00
off of the original quilt that had the children's self portraits sewn together on it. We, are not the parents who purchased the quilt! Cutest Kindergarten graduation ever. Once the welcome was given by the principal, the piano started and never stopped! All K classes had their own little performances, with the cutest little songs in between while classes moved into their places. So, so fun to watch as a parent. Got it on tape, but way too long to post. A parent put together an amazing slide show of the year, which the rest of us cried over.
Diploma in hand, she's goin' to the 1st grade ya'll!

You've exceeded all of our expectations Ella and we love you!

I am SO excited to get to do kindergarten again next year with Paisley, although a little nervous that it couldn't possibly be as wonderful as this year has been to us! We'll see! And we'll also see if we are even living in the same state come September!