May 2016
May is such a crazy month with all of the end of year events to cover. Here are a few of the things we kept busy with this month.
Piano Recital
Sydney has been learning some piano songs here at home, so when the other kids were playing in their piano recital, she asked if she could play in it too, which surprised me, to be honest. She played Old MacDonald Had a Farm, and did a great job. I was proud of her for being so brave!
Basket Night
This was one of our better basket nights. The kids all had fun, nobody cried, nobody had an accident, and nobody got lost. Except Daphne's wallet. Which we found several days later . . . in her purse.
Movie Star
I found out that I made it into less than a second of the official Captain Fantastic movie trailer that I worked as an extra in a couple of years ago. Look out, cause this could be my big break!
Mother's Day Tea
Sydney's Kindergarten class had a Mother's Day Tea where we had tea and cookies and they performed some songs for us. Each mom also had to guess which picture was supposed to be her. I picked mine out right off because Sydney draws all the time, and has a style that I recognize.
Potty Training
After multiple failed attempts at potty training Bennett, I gave up and decided I would try after the baby was born. But one day, Bennett decided he wanted to wear underwear. I didn't have time to mess with it, but fine, if he wanted to wear underwear, he could. He ended up pretty much potty training himself! The pooping took a little bit longer, and that's what this is a picture of. He had an accident, and Arthur offered to clean him up. After a couple of minute, I heard Arthur say, "How do you DO this?" I walked in to the bathroom to see this:
Blog to Books
One of my goals for 2016 was to get our blog for the years 2012 and 2013 published into books. Before Nathan was born. And yahoo! I did it! 2 years into 4 books done in 5 months. Feels good to have one of my resolutions completed by May!
Fieldtrips!
Of course, the kids all had fieldtrips at the end of the year. I don't usually get to chaperone field trips since I always have at least one child still at home. But it was really, really important to Hayden that I come on one of his field trips. I was able to get a friend to watch Bennett and got to chaperone Hayden's class field trip to Dion's. We walked there from the school and I was glad I was able to keep up since I was SUPER pregnant at the time.
End of the Year Concerts
Orchestra--Dallin played in Advanced Orchestra and General Electric
Dallin and Daphne both sang in Five Star Show Choir and they were each in curricular choirs also. All the show choirs and curricular choirs performed at the end of year concert. The first part they wore their Show Choir costumes, and then the rest of the concert was a Disney theme. Daphne dressed as Tigger and Dallin dressed as a Newsie. It was a great concert, and the last one directed by Mr. Prior. Eisenhower will miss him. He built such a great choral program.
The last song was with ALL of the choirs together--it looked so cool to see that many middle schoolers dancing and singing out on that gym floor!
And here are the 8th graders at their last choir concert. They will be a great addition to whatever choir they sing with in the future!
Sydney's Kinder Performance
For their end of year moving on celebration, the 4 kindergarten classes sing songs for the parents followed by a picnic. Their songs were darling, the picnic got rained out this year, but we still had a great time eating our lunch under the overhang.
Mrs. Sanchez (on the right) has taught 3 of our kids at Hubert Humphrey. She is moving to Colorado this summer and we will miss seeing her bright smile at school! Sydney had a wonderful year in her classroom.
Last Day of School
Dallin and Daphne on their last day of school
Hayden had a 2nd grade picnic and games at the park on his last day
Yahoo!!! School's out for summer!
Braces for Daphne
The day after school got out, Daphne got her braces on. She has a new smile for the next 18-24 months.
