A Not-So-Bummer one

With Sophie finishing school Friday, and Harper the previous week, we are well on our way to relaxation.  Friday Harper, Camille, and I joined Sophie and her class for one last lunch in school, gave hugs to our favoirite SFES friends, and drove to The Little Gym for a last day of school party.   That started our summer off with a bang!  When we got home we grabbed our summer notebooks and wrote down some things we MUST do this summer.  Here is our list of things to keep our summer fun:

-  SWIM!
-  Sleep on the floor in Camille's room.  (Harper swears this will make her have the best summer)
-  Have a lazy day
-  Head to the Cabin for our yearly tubing trip in North Georgia
-  Go to Bible School
- Eat candy
-  Read books


I think we can handle this summer!

Recital Time

 Post number two for the night!

The girls have been busy dancing the past two Saturdays.  The way our ballet studio works is they really concentrate on technique for the younger girls, not so much a dance, so they don't participate in a big showcase until they are in first grade.  Instead, we get to sit through an entire dance class, watch them do their everyday things, and do a small dance at the end.  It is so fun to watch them dance, even if they aren't perfect or fabulous.   But they try so hard, and smile the whole time!

Harper went first with her recital.  She is hilarious to watch.  She is in lala land half the time,  but when she listens, her form is usually spot-on.  She has AMAZING flexibility.  Splits, bends, leg lifts are all so easy to her.  If she keeps this up we will have a talented dancer or gymnast on our hands!  Her teacher this year was Ms. Zoe.  Sophie had her last year and we love her patience, ability to teach the girls correct terms, and her recaps of Harper's funnier classes.

Sophie had her last year of in-house showcase.  Next year she will be in the big recital.  So, it was fun to get one last chance to watch her up close.  Sophie, being a major people pleaser,  does great with her form and tries so hard to complete each movement.  Her toe-pointing ability makes her a pretty ballerina to watch!  Her teacher this year was Miss Raley.  We LOVED having her, because she is a Rockette during the holiday season!  That is now Sophie's career dream!

Back with a biggie!

So, I am sure no one reads this anymore, but since I started this blog to keep track of our family events, I am going to try to do a better job of recording our history!  So here is my first attempt at doing that... and what a BIG event it was!

Sophie graduated Kindergarten!  As you can tell by the picture below, she was in good hands this year with a teacher that truly loved her and her classmates.

This year she has learned to read, subtract, eat snowcones without spilling much on her, run fast in PE, eat cafeteria food, ride a bus, play on the computer, and many other useful life skills.  She has figured out that if you keep your shirt tucked in and your bow straight and are polite teachers really like you.  She has had a great experience with sweet, normal kids in her class.  She has a few she talks about more than others, but for the most part she genuinely likes and plays with all the kids in her class.

I will probably tear up next year when we walk past all the other first kid in school parents as they meet the sweet, sweet kindergarten teachers our school has, and we turn left on the primary hall towards the first grade classrooms.  But THIS year, we have had a ball!