School's out for Summer!

School for this year has officially ended! Thomas is now in 2nd grade and Hailey is in her 2nd year of pre-school- one more year until she starts Kindergarten!

Thomas' teacher was Mrs. Young and she was wonderful. We've been so lucky to get such great teachers so far! She liked Thomas a lot and was so willing to help him out in any way. Thomas is doing so great in school. He loves going and he is just really excelling academically. He's an incredible reader and I'm hoping to really continue to nurture that over the summer. {I'm introducing him to Harry Potter!} Thomas has this cute little 1st grade singing program that we went to last week, but the camera was dying, so hardly any of our pics came out- boo! The one above is him in his classroom afterwards. All the other kids decorated their pencil boxes with stickers, markers, etc. Thomas' was still in pristine condition- just like when he got it months ago. That is SO Thomas!

Hailey loves school. I'm so happy we opted to put her in preschool as a 3 year old because it was just what she needed. She's doing great with letter recognition and her printing is improving. Again, we're going to really work on it this summer and start getting her ready for kindergarten!

She too had a cute little ceremony at the end of the year. Before the program started she came to me and very seriously told me that everyone was going to wear costumes. Everyone. I looked at her and said, "really?" I thought about calling her teacher really quick to confirm, but just decided- what the heck, it's first year preschool, let's let her have fun! So we went and of course, Hailey was the only one in a costume! You just have to laugh and love her for it. She didn't blink an eye over it- nothing phases this girl!