He's a Pre-K Graduate!

Aidan has officially graduated from pre-kindergarten. Yes, it is all a little silly that we celebrate the graduation from preschool of all things, but that didn't stop me from crying buckets of tears. It didn't help that they started the ceremony with a picture slide show of all the kiddies in the class over the past year. When you add cute pictures and some sentimental song as a backdrop, I'm a goner. (Hell - I cry at Hallmark commercials! Even my own Nana had to make fun of me for once witnessing my full out tears at at every. single. commercial break as we enjoyed a special presentation of a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie.)

Anyway. The slide show was adorable. My favorite part was a beautiful picture of Aidan with his arms intertwined with his friend Ellie on cowboy day. They are sporting cowboy hats, bandanas and just look plain ol' cute. It resulted in a thunderous "ahhhh" from the crowd.

After the slide show, the kiddies walked down the aisle of the auditorium and entertained us with a few songs. Aidan scored the part of the grouper during some fish song about, well.. a grouper. He had to hold up a cardboard cut out of a fish anytime they sang the word grouper in the song. After the ceremony, anytime we would refer to Aidan's cut out as a fish, he would remind us, "It's a grouper, Mom, a grouper!"

After the ceremony, the school had a picnic for all the families. Hot dogs, face painting, balloon animals, clowns and cupcakes too - can it get any better than that?

For Aidan it can... Our graduation gift to him was his very own copy of the XBox 360 Lego Star Wars game. His shock rendered him momentarily speechless. And then pure joy and euphoria set in as he realized it was his game. To keep. For real.

A picture of Chris and me with our happy graduate.




I know it's just preschool. I do have some perspective (truly!). But it makes me sad because it is a sign of things to come. It has opened the door to my little baby getting on a big school bus and riding off to kindergarten. My sweet little baby, who is now a boy.