Last Day of Kindergarten!!!!!

 The day has come that Kindergarten is done!! So hard to believe our year is finished, but I couldn't be more proud of Wyatt and SO thankful the Lord provided him with a safe and special environment to help him be the best Wyatt he could be!

We celebrated our last day with a family day at Deanna Rose! We had time to adventure and play before a little "graduation" ceremony as an entire kindergarten. 

Their teacher greeted them with new shades for their field trip because, "Their future is so bright!" 

So thankful to spend the mooning with my special guy!

 His teacher, Mrs. Gentz, and possibly one of his favorite people of all time!

 Graduation hat on!

 It's official- he's a big kid!

 And now----- It's SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!!!!!

Kindergarten Awards Day!

Kindergarten is wrapping up and I can't wrap my head around that. This year FLEW by! It was a fantastic year for Wyatt. The most amazing teacher and class for him. Something I prayed for over and over and over again for him. Answered prayers for sure! He excelled in all that he did in school- his academics as well as his confidence! I couldn't have asked for anything better!

During the last week of school, his teacher put together a little awards ceremony to honor what an amazing year of growth it was for everyone! She had a different award for each of them and told a little story about each child and how they contributed to their class family. She even had a little red carpet for them to walk.

Wyatt's award: Class Leader and Future President

Talent Share!!

Grant has been wanting to participate in the Talent Share the last two years, but it was always at the last second and he honestly had nothing prepared to even try out with! So this school year, he began thinking about the Talent Share a few months prior and decided he wanted to tell jokes. After all, he is very talented in that area ;-) He scoured joke books for a few days and came up with his favorites. Wyatt decided he too wanted to be in the Talent Share, so he put together a floor routine and parallel bar routine he could show off. 

So they practiced at home, tried out for their music teacher, and made the show! I had seen Wyatt practice his floor routine he made up all the time, but Grant never practiced his jokes. EVER. He just knew he was going to wear a mustache and a hat and Wyatt was going to be his assistant. So when Talent Share day came, I wasn't sure what was going to happen. 

But they both blew me away! Grant was so lively with the crowd and had them cracking up! It was awesome and I LOVED seeing him and Wyatt up there together. I love that he chose Wyatt!!! Grant was definitely in his element and didn't feel nervous for one second. He did GREAT!!

(I only took video so these are just screen shots for memory sake!)

Wyatt was so cute and tiny up there. I couldn't even hear his tiny voice when he introduced himself on the microphone. I tried to talk him into having the music teacher pull out the gym mats so he could do his back handspring, but he didn't want to, although now he says he should've done that because the crowd would've been totally amazed if he did that. But they were amazed anyway!

I'm so proud of them being so brave to go in front of their school and show off how awesome they truly are! SO proud of you boys!!

Field Day Fun!

The weather for Field Day could not have been more perfect! And what added to it was that Grant and Wyatt's classes were right next to each other through the whole morning so I was able to watch both of them do all the activities!!! Mom win!!

Wyatt got to come to school in the morning, which is always exciting. Watching them walk to school together kind of made my heart skip a beat, as I know this is a glimpse into my future for next school year.

Field Day was PERFECT! Lots of game playing, chalk drawing, flower planting, smiles, and fun!!  

 Their PE teacher is retiring and she is a BIG KU fan, so they filled the picnic area with KU and Jayhawk drawings for Mrs. Marx!

 Grant's class! Of course, Grant didn't wear his class t-shirt like they were supposed to because you know, 100% cotton just isn't his thing (sigghhhhhh).

 Wyatt and some of his best buddies, Oliver, Rex, Marietta

LOVED seeing them side by side all morning!! 

Love my fellas!!

Kindergarten Goes to Kaleidoscope

I love the Kindergarten to Kaleidoscope tradition! I did it in kindergarten, Grant did it, and now it was Wyatt's turn!! What made it really special was that they got to be gone ALL DAY! A special thing for those half-day kids! They got to walk to school with the big sibs that morning (also special!) and then hop a bus to Crown Center! Us moms met them there, since before our Kaleidoscope fun, they got to see Elephant and Piggie at the Coterie Theatre! I wish I could've been in on that because we have LOVED Elephant and Piggie for years now!! We greeted them outside the Coterie and then headed to Lunchland for lunch!

I love their little class family! All sitting together at one giant table! This was such a great group of kids! They were are a little family!

 After lunch, we meandered our way through Crown Center to Kaleidoscope!! We had the place to ourselves for a little bit until another school showed up, so that was nice!! Wyatt and I had been earlier in the fall with my mom's group, so he had a few things on his checklist he knew he wanted to do, so he ran from area to area and I just followed his lead.

By the time our hour was up, Wyatt was definitely ready to go. This whole all-day thing is tiring for him!! So they hopped on the bus and headed back to school. They had the option to stay for the rest of the day, but he insisted he wanted me to pick him up when they got back to school. I did, but then he and Rex just played at Angela's until it was time to walk back across the street to get the big kids! 

This will always be one of my favorite memories of my kids in kindergarten! I can't believe the year is already almost over! Kindergarten is just the best!

Kindie Field Trip to Hen House

Kindergarten has had quite a few field trips this year and I've been able to attend each one! I love that they open each field trip to all the parents! This day, we met at Hen House. They discussed the different food groups as they walked around each section of the store. They also got to try a food from that food group. I was so proud of Wyatt trying some foods he was scared to try! He tried ham!! HAM!!!

 Milk mustaches ;-)

Halloween School Parties

I'm room mom for Wyatt's class this year, which was so hard for me! After being room mom in Grant's class the last two years, its hard to not be involved in both parties! Luckily I was able to sneak down and check on Grant's party for a quick second! Wyatt's class is so much fun! Such good kids! We played some games, did some crafts, ate some snacks, and that was that!!! That was the perfect combination for a Happy Halloween Party!!

 Wyatt dressed for the occasion heading to school!!

Kindergarten Field Trip!

I love a good kindie field trip!! But going to the pumpkin patch is one of my faves!! Especially when we get to go to Johnson Farms! I would never pay of our family to do that because its is SO expensive, but field trip prices are acceptable!!! They do have a ton of fun things to do, so its always a good time!!! We had so much fun with our friends, walking around the patch and looking for the perfect pumpkin!!!

Kindergarten FUN!

Kindergarten is SO much fun!! Wyatt is absolutely loving it, although he would like more homework :) Seriously though, his teacher is a dream and we love her so much!! It was the thing I prayed the most for and I'm so so so thankful that my prayer was answered!! So much fun and yet so much learning going on! I haven't been helping in the classroom like I was for Grant, but I'm hoping come 2nd quarter I'll be able to get involved more. I want to see more of those cute things!!!

First Day of Kindergarten

The long-awaited First Day of Kindergarten finally arrived!! We've only been waiting for this day for about 2 years now! Wyatt was so excited and had everything laid out and organized for weeks! We just had to make it til 12:30 before we could actually get up there! I took him out for Chick Fil A breakfast to celebrate the exciting day!

The first day of kindergarten for Wyatt was a much different experience than it was when it was Grant's first day. On Grant's first day, we didn't know anything about the school and didn't know a single person. But with Wyatt, he already knew where his classroom was, and he already knew over half of his classmates, so there was a lot to be excited about!

 The first day of school was sooooo hot, so instead of waiting outside, we all filed into the school entryway and waited for Mrs. Gentz to walk us to class. The kids all waited anxiously, checking out each others backpacks and water bottles! :)

 And then she came and we all got to walk back to the classroom to get set up! 

**There was a little mix-up with Wyatt on Sneak a Peek night- they had him enrolled in AM kindergarten, even though I had written 100,000,000 times in multiple places that I wanted PM. So the AM and PM teachers already had everything labeled and set up, so when we showed up to Sneak a Peek and they had him all sorts of confused about where his stuff should go, what number he was, etc. So instead of changing all the other kids numbers and making them all shift up a number, Wyatt is now #15 instead of #1. He likes that because now his cubby is closest to the door. Thankfully he just rolled with it all!**

 He got his supplies all squared away and got busy on his first assignment! He was so excited to get to work!

He was also very excited to bring back his crayon for the class bulletin board. I like his What Makes Me Unique; "I can do a round off back handspring."

It's going to be an awesome year, with an awesome teacher, and an awesome kiddo!!!