Seth's Last Day in Elementary

It's so hard to believe that one of my kids is done with elementary and moving on to middle school! I can't be that old, can I? On Friday, Seth had his last day at the Intermediate school. The didn't do an actual graduation but celebrated each kid during their awards ceremony. Every kid got an award and walked across stage to get it. Seth's was for his IMI Math Test score (although I'm not sure what the score was). The rest of the day was filled with a party, celebrating their moving on to middle school. At the very end of the day they did the "5th Grade Walk". All the other classes were brought out into the hallway to cheer on the 5th graders. A lot of the girls (and some of the boys) were crying, as they lined up and walked through the halls, one last time, to the graduation march. It was pretty emotional to stand and watch, although Seth and his group of friends never cried and couldn't understand why everyone else was. Mikayla, on the other hand, was sitting in the hallways bawling her eyes out, which made almost the entire 2nd grade hallway start crying. Her teacher and I didn't know whether to console them or laugh. LOL Anyways, here's a few pictures from his last day of elementary! On to bigger and better...



Getting his award

With his teacher, Mrs Hawkins


With 2 of our neighbors. Ok, story behind this is that the girls were both taller than Seth. He was standing on his tiptoes to try to be taller (which is why he looks like he's about to bust open laughing) and Lesleigh was trying to look shorter (which is why she was leaning in)

Micah's Graduation

Tonight, Micah graduated from pre-K. I can't believe it's been a full year since he started! He was so cute in his cap and gown and did so good at that program. They sang a couple of songs and he was totally into them. His waving at us just added to his cuteness. I've decided that preschool and kindergarten graduations are stupid though. Well, at least the PARENTS are stupid!!! The director told everyone to sit down and be considerate of the other parents. Of course, there were about 6 parents who decided to stand right in the front middle of the aisle, blocking everyone else. The director again asked everyone to sit down, and so these people sent their kids to do their dirty work!!! This auditorium was only about 15 rows so they could have easily stood along the back wall and zoomed, or stood on the side walls. One parent walks up and says "Excuse me, do you think you could send us all pictures of OUR kids since you are blocking all of us from seeing??" It was quite humerous! At the same time, the lady in front of me was walking up to tell them to sit down and I was walking up. I said "You know, we all have kids too and you are blocking about 12 rows of people from seeing THEIR kids! Go sit down". Of course, a few didn't like it and one called me a name...yep, in front of all the kids! Such a classy group of people!

Anyways, here's a few pics of Micah. Isn't he just the cutest???


Micah and our neighbor Ashley who was also graduating tonight



Waving


Singing. The pics are a little blurred cause it was so hard to take pictures around the stupid people


Getting his diploma





Micah and his teacher, Ms. Belinda




Getting ice cream after the ceremony

New Bird

So, we are crazy. No, WE aren't, TIM is!! For as long as I can remember, he's wanted a cockatoo but since they run $1500 or so, plus the cage and accessories, that wasn't ever going to happen, or so I thought. A couple weeks ago his mom called and there was a cockatoo that needed to be 'rescued'. Long story short, he drove up to Michigan and picked up the newest member of our family, then turned around and drove home. She was a free adoption and came with all her accessories. She is quite sweet (although at the moment she is trying to find her place so is trying to be a bit dominant and aggressive, but it shouldn't last long). Her name was Nicki, but that's not much of a bird name so we changed it to Chloe. (Ok, I know that's not really a bird name either but it's better.) She's already learned her name and when we walk in the door or she hears us, she'll say "Hi Chloe" as an indication that she wants us to come and get her. It'll be an adjustment period but I think in the end she'll be a great addition.

Micah's Easter Party

On Friday, April 3rd, Micah's class at PreK had it's Easter party. They did an Easter egg hung and had lunch. Since I was on spring break, I got to go and Micah was so excited to have his mom there. It was cute because we made cupcakes (ok, Josette made them before I got the chance) but Micah kept asking the kids "Do you like my cupcakes?.....Thanks!" and then would ask the next one. It was really fun to see him interact in his school environment. He's doing really well there and is quite popular. I got him enrolled in Kindergarten last week also. Since his birthday is August 21 and the cutoff here in Georgia is September 1, he will probably be the youngest (or one of the youngest) in his class. The teacher who did his enrollment testing said that he was the youngest she'd had all morning but that he did really well. He didn't know the name of his ankle or wrist or what an oval was, but come on, those are pretty difficult. She said she was quite impressed with how well he could rhyhm, better than most of the older kids. He wasn't too excited about kindergarten, until he saw 7 other kids from his pre-k class there, then he was begging to go. Anyways,here's some pics from his egg hunt.



Finding eggs


Micah's Class

Micah and his friend Brandon


Micah and his friend Mia


Micah got tired of me taking pictures so would close his eyes like this everytime I'd try for another picture! haha

Playing in the water

Last week, before the cold temperatures and snow we had yesterday, we had a day where it was in the 70s. It had rained a TON the day before and the water part of the sandbox was full. Jacob and Micah decided to go out and play in it and Rex couldn't not join in on the fun. He was splashing water with his paws and the boys were soaked, but they all had so much fun.

Seth's Birthday

Hard to believe my oldest baby is now 11! Where does the time go? It's hard to imagine him in middle school next year! AHHHH!

More snow pictures

After Jacob's nap, he wanted to go back outside. The older kids were all at friends houses so I only let them venture to the deck but they had fun anyways. Even Rex got in on the action. This was his first snow. :)

Jacob would point to the sky and say "SNOOOOOOW"



Rex was going crazy!

CHEESE!

Georgia Snow '09

Nothing like getting snow on March 1! This was Jacob's first time in the snow so needless to say, he didn't want to come in. The other kids couldn't wait to get in it. They are forcasting 1-3" for our town. We have about 1/2" right now and it's still snowing.
Some of the snowflakes were as big as golfballs!


Mikayla was excited to make a snowball



Trying to eat snowflakes. Seth was at a neighbors so I didnt' get him playing in it.

New Hair Cut

I don't think I showed this yet. :) It's not the greatest pic, but you sort of get the idea. It's about shoulder length and I have bangs, something I haven't had in YEARS.

Odyessey of the Mind 2009

Yesterday was Mikayla's Odyessey of the Mind and I have to admit that I'm glad it's over. They put so much time into their practices, and honestly, it was a FLOP! Their costumes were horrid, their props ridiculous and the coach's daughter had the main role! I never thought I'd be one of 'those' parents to complain about special treatment, but that's totally what it was. While this girl was good, Mikayla is just as dramatic, if not more so, and could have totally pulled off the role. Instead, she was a pegasus, and her line was "neigh". That's it! Parents aren't allowed to help at all in the costume design and Mikayla made a great paper mache nose for her costume, then decided last minute to use a cup. It was so hard for me to let her do that, but I wasn't allowed to have a say in it.

The entire team from Austell (our schools). There were 1-5th graders all involved.

Mikayla and her teammate, Mya

The team and their coach, Ms Mitchell

Mikayla and Veronia...the coach's daughter