Last Day of School

Today was my baby's last day of nursery school. We got to go in 20 minutes early to pick them up and we got to collect all the things they had been using all year, from their names on their attendance cards to the picture on the wall next to the star with their birthday to their snack place mats that they picked out photos and stickers to put on it and his teacher lamented it.


Not only that, Mrs. C. made a huge folder with a few different things that the kids had been making all year. It had his hand prints from the beginning of the year, different crafts from some holidays, photos from class time, and his foot print out line at the end. It was so sweet. I totally cried. Especially when she started crying first.

The Kid and his Girlfriend are loving the cookies I bought for their last day.

Blowing bubbles outside school that Mrs. C gave them all.Climbing the tree that they climbed every day after school.
Then the Kid and I went to Friendly's for lunch and I was miraculously able to get him to fall asleep in the car about 5 minutes from home! And he napped about 2 hours! So we were able to go to the boardwalk tonight and celebrate his last day.

Daddy came home early from work to come with us. We got to stay out late and have hot dogs and ice cream and he got to go on as many rides as he wanted. I was trying to make his last day of school a fun happy day. Because I know he is already sad when I tell him he will be going to a new school next year. So I am hoping we can look back on today and I'll remind him how much fun the day was.

Pre-school & College

So yesterday my computer was acting up so bad that the Hubby had to run a mess of stuff on it. It kept kicking me offline and freezing up. Thankfully it is up and running fine now *knock wood*

The Hubby also graduated from college yesterday!! He had gotten his associates when he first graduated HS and then got a job right away and never went to a 4 year school. So over the last 4 or 5 years he has been taking one class a semester and got his degree! I am so proud of him. He is finally as smart as me...on paper! ;)

The Kid only has 5 days left of school. I can't believe he is almost done with his 1st year of school. When you are a stay at home mom I feel like it is so much more heart wrenching. I have friends whose kids have been in day care since before they were 6 months old (just as heart wrenching for them at that time, that I didn't have)...so their years of pre-school will just blend right into daycare. It was such a huge deal to drop off my baby for 2 1/2 hours a day just 2 days a week for the first time in his little life. Today we celebrated his summer birthday, complete with cupcakes we baked yesterday and a crown with 4 (paper) candles in top. He was so excited, now I just have to convince him that it really isn't his birthday for 2 more months!

Happy Mother's Day!!

Hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day tomorrow! My celebration started last Wednesday at the Kid's school. They had a Mother's Day Tea planned that they have been working on for weeks. We all dressed up and wore party hats and we weren't allowed to move while all our kids served us. They started out with a little show.

Gimmie an M! M!

Gimmie an O! O!

Gimmie an M! M!

What's that spell? MOM!!!

They moved into "I'm a Little Teapot" and it was just SO adorable.

It was a strawberry and pineapple tea party (that's what they served) and the place mats were strawberry shaped with our names on them. We got a card with how much he loved me written on the inside.

"I love her as high as a giant!"

We also got a heart shaped 'pin' that was made out of cookie and I think it was shellacked or something. He colored on it and it will be with me forever. We also got a strawberry plant!

He was wearing his little 'detective' blazer that he loves to wear.

I also got a drawing of me with a description that he told his teacher one day. On it was:

My Special Mother

My Mom likes to cook "Daddy Pasta!" It is a little pasta...it has holes in it! She likes to shop a lot. She shops at Shop Rite. I go to the Scrunchy Play House. She buys me eggs. Together we watch TV and we play together. Her favorite color is red. I love her 5 Big Times!

We really didn't have tea, but we had a delicious punch! And the cutest thing was that all the kids served us and cleaned up after us. We weren't allowed to get up. There were cookies, strawberries and pineapples.

This was after bringing me a whole handful of strawberries.

At the end, all the kids went to get their totes and the mommies went to bring everything to the car. When we came back to get them we got another surprise. A laminated card with his hand prints on it covering an adorable picture 'peak a boo' style over top. Precious.

All the mommies got to wear party hats and the Kid stole mine.

Next year his teacher is going to have a lot to live up to. Thank you Mrs. C. You are the BEST first teacher my son could have had! You just made my day.

New Hair Do

I am sitting at home, alone, in a quiet house. I'm not used to it.


The Kid's nursery school is a co-op. That means that they have one teacher and then 2 of the parents are the 'aides' each day. We only have to do 9 days a year. He goes 2 days a week for 2 1/2 hours a day and it's only $1000. That is practically nothing compared to all the other schools around here.


Today, for the first time ever, Hubby has taken the kid to school AND is doing the co-op! He never wanted to take the Kid in the begining because he would cry when I'd drop him off, Hubby would never want to leave him. he is such a pushover.


Yesterday we did the summer hair cut for the Kid. I love it! My baby looks so much older! Note the picture from the concert 2 weeks ago. It's not the best recent picture of his hair I can find...but look at all that hair!

Here is the after... He wouldn't take his eyes off the firetruck movie that was playing just for him and check out the look I am getting with the spikes!

He finally woke up this morning without the worst bed head, that he gets every day. And I sent him off to school with his new spikey do.