Fun Day with Alexander!!!

Yesterday was Alexander's end of year party with his Kindergarten class. He was so excited the night before telling us all that was planned for the day. I LOVE it when my children are so excited about an event coming up that my heart just about explodes with joy!!

The events started at 9:00 am in the Kindergarten classroom. Alexander received his diploma and a special recognition for always "Finishing First" with his classwork and more importantly always being correct:) We are so proud of him. Here is a picture of him receiving his diploma and special recognition. Even though his face is partially covered in the first picture you can just see those precious cheeks glowing!!











Here are a few pictures of Alexander with some of his best buds and his best gal, Sadie. She is so precious:)





The shirt he is wearing he made himself. He only put Alex instead of Alexander because he said the "ANDER" would have been under his armpit:) Ha! In some of the other pictures you will see a fish that he made with his handprint. Too cute.


His teacher, Ms. Velez, read a beautiful poem (which I hope to publish here later) which made us all cry. She is such a wonderful teacher ( as well as her assistant Ms. Jones) and we are so blessed and thankful that Alexander's Kindergarten year was so successful. He had so much FUN learning!!



After the graduation ceremony we all went outside for the fun activities. I worked the face painting (stamping) station so I didn't get to see all of the fun stations but John took lots of pictures for me. There was a blowup slide, sack race, water balloon tossing (Alexander's favorite which he wrote his end of day essay about), other races, a station to stop and paint a huge thank you banner to the Kindergarten teachers, jump roping.... tons of FUN!!








After the morning activities we went inside for pizza, chips, cupcakes, and chocolate chip cookie!! We let Alexander take some pictures and of course his classmates wanted to take some also. They did a great job so I'll post a few here.







After the pizza we went back outside in the HEAT and played some more at the different stations. All the children had a blast. Back inside, Ms. Velez asked the class to write a paragraph about their favorite part of their day and draw a picture. Alexander wrote that he liked the water balloons and his friend Gunner getting him wet.



Now, there is this precious little boy in Alexander's class that wrote his favorite part of the day was playing with Alexander's Dad! Sniff! Sniff! How precious is that!!!! What's not to love about my adorable, kindhearted husband!! We found out later that it meant so much to this child - it meant alot to us too just knowing that John made such a significant difference in this child's life, even if it was just for a couple of hours.



We left school about an hour early, went to pick up Z and J and headed to the beach!!! Woo Hoo!, I just LOVE living on the coast. The water was a little rough, but oh did it feel good!! I was so proud of how well all our boys are progressing in the water. It is so amazing to see how well they are swimming and heartwarming to see how far Josiah has come since that blood curling scream we first heard from him just 7 months ago when we attempted to put him anywhere near the water. I'll post some beach pictures later - gotta go for now:)