William's Preschool Graduation

 William had his preschool graduation ceremony on Thursday.  Since William has two more years of preschool ahead of him, this is really more of an end-of-the-year ceremony.  William will be attending a different preschool this fall, but we will likely enroll Emilia here when she turns 3 next year.  We had a great experience here, and we were really blown away by their end of the year celebration.  They had a slide show (given to us on cd to take home as well), a yearbook, and a disc of 400 pictures taken throughout the year which they also gave to each family to take home.  It is a given that I cried, so you need not ask.

 

 

 The ceremony was held in their theater. 

 

 

 They posted a wall of "When I grow up I want to be...".  William apparently wants to Spiderman.  For the record, I had no idea that he knew who Spiderman is.

 

 

 They had us bring in their dad's white dress shirt which they wore backwards as gowns.  I mean, adorbz.

 

 

 The children were brought up front and center to receive their certificates.  For each child, they talked about their personality and behaviors in the classroom and then predicted their future careers based on their observations.  For William, the director said that during dinosaur week, she was pointing out the various dinosaurs they had hung around the room.  As she was naming dinosaurs, he began correcting her, and she quickly realized that his knowledge of dinosaurs surpassed her own so his future career is predicted to be a Paleontologist. 

 

 

 So proud of my sweet boy

 My mom and Carl were both came to celebrate the event, but unfortunately we didn't get any pictures with the adults.  William was not in a picture-taking mood (naturally), but we got a few with William and Emilia.

 

 

 Emmy was all smiles, saying "cheese" and turning in the direction of each of our cameras.  What a little ham!

 

 

 Such a force of life and love

 

 

No daintiness when it comes to downing the cake. 

 

My mom and I took William and Emmy to a park near us to extend the celebration.  It was a beautiful day, and it was so nice to share it with family.  Thanks to mom for taking time to celebrate the small milestones in the kids' lives.  We could not be more proud of our little boy, and we are looking forward to more fun school celebrations with him in the future!