Memorial Day Concert

Annabelle's school put on a concert in honor of Memorial Day. During this event, the Kindergarten class joined together with the 2nd and 4th grades for their portion of the concert. The concert took place in the school gym and it was incredibly crowded, incredibly hot and incredibly hard to hear a thing. Jack and I ended up having to sit on the floor as not one person thought to give up a seat to the woman who is 9 months pregnant. All around, it was pretty miserable. As we sat on the floor, unable to actually see Annabelle, listening to the concert, I heard Jack mumble "this is the boringest song ever" and then he fell asleep, right there, squashed in the middle of the gym floor with his head on my lap.

The only pleasant part of this whole event was being able to see the glow on my daughter's face as she sat next to her love, Nicholas!

Graduation Day!

Jack has officially graduated from preschool (even though he has a week of school left)!

His school had a little graduation ceremony in the auditorium and then an after party on the school grounds. During the ceremony each class sang a couple of songs (on stage) and then each child received a diploma. Jack was not overly keen on the performance part of the ceremony and moaned a lot in the beginning (in his defense, it was about 95 degrees outside and there was no air conditioning in the auditorium) but he perked up towards the end and even participated in the second song.

At the after party, they had the usual: snacks, pony rides, face painting, tye dye station and crafts. Jack was only interested in the snacks and playing. Annabelle, however, had to try everything, including the pony... THREE times!

All in all I think the kids had a good time. They even had a special guest appearance from Auntie Kristen who extended her visit from Virginia just to see Jackie graduate!

Congratulations, Jackie!!! Next stop, Kindergarten!

The Countdown Begins!

Well, I met with my doctor this morning and it looks like we will be having this baby in less than 2 weeks... Unless I go before then, we have an induction scheduled for June 6th!!

Oh Lordy

We are letting Annabelle take this Wednesday off from school to attend Jack's preschool graduation. This morning I found this note on the dining room table:

Translation: Nick, I will be absent on Wednesday. I'm sorry. Love, Annabelle.

I suppose actually telling him in person would have been too much to handle.

I also found this one:

Not sure if they are mountain climbing or ice skating. My favorite bit; the matching "I love you" t-shirts!

Here We Go, Again

Annabelle is in LOOOOOVE.... This week it's with a boy named Nicholas. Over the weekend, she made Nicholas a heart shaped love note which she brought to school yesterday. According to Annabelle, Nicholas loved the heart and told her she was beautiful. Apparently, Nicholas is planning to marry Annabelle, when she is 20.

This morning when Annabelle came into my room, fully dressed, I could smell the hair spray she had just been using. After she announced that she carefully chose an outfit she thought Nicholas would like, she left the room and went downstairs to make him another note. Sadly, she forgot to take the note to school with her today... and evil Mommy found it!