Hooray for the last day!!

This was Brody on his first day of Kindergarten.  August 2008.

Here he is on the last day of Kindergarten.  May 2009.  

Doesn't he look so much more grown up?

Brody received a class award today for "The Best Personality!"  We couldn't agree more!  We are so proud of him and are looking forward to watching him grow some more! 

Did I mentioned how excited I am that today was the last day of Kindergarten for Brody?  The guilt and frustration I have felt this year are unbelieveable!  The things that Brody has and has not learned this year have been unimaginable!  I am so happy it's over!!  I'm ready to have him home with me, learning and working on more important things in life!  Away from his "friends" is what I most look forward too!  I'm giving his school one more year since we got the teacher we requested but after that, we are on the something else!  If 1st grade goes anything like Kindergarten did...that's it!  I'm hoping, praying and confident that 1st grade will be better for him (and I!) The best part about this year is that I've learned alot about schools, teachers, principals, and peers.  I've learned that Brody has been 100 times happier the second half of school then he was the first. I've learned that teachers have very different teaching styles and that I need to find the teacher whose style works with his personality and mine!!  I'm happy it's over and I'm looking forward to a wild, crazy, hot summer with my boys at HOME!    

Hooray for the last day!!

The Wheels On The Bus...

Here he comes!  My heart was very heavy watching this bus drive up the street!

Getting off the bus with his "Bus Buddies!"

If you have third grade bus buddies as cute as these neighbor girls, wouldn't you want to ride the bus too!

Brought my Kindergartner home from school today (UGH!)

He's begged, pleaded, asked neighborhood friends to talk to his Mom! I've just been ignoring him and hoping he would forget!  Ever since that dang field trip to the museum he's wanted to ride the bus to or from school!  Today I finally gave in (I'm not sure why!) I wrote notes to the teacher, bus driver and even the "bus buddy" teacher letting them all know Brody would take the bus home today.  I stressed all day hoping it would go well and that he would be safe!  Today Case, Ledger and I rode our bikes up the street to meet him.  Of course he loved it and wants to do it all the time now!  I'm really not ready for all this growing up stuff!  It can just stop right now!