Last Week of School

This is the last week of preschool for Ava...ever.  After 4 years, she will be leaving the school for kindergarten next Fall.  I knew I would be sad about it but had no clue that it would affect Ava so much.    All week, she kept getting sad and telling me that she did not want to leave preschool.  She even got teary a few times.

On Tuesday, the class had a pizza party.  We tried to get a complete class photo since they official one was missing 4 of the girls and Ms. Mary.

(just so I don't forget later: from left to right {back row} Ms. Lori, Sienna, Ellie, Finn, Avery, Sofia, Cole, Charlie[Ava's boyfriend], Harrison, Ms. Mary, Reed {front row} Kjell, Addi, Ava, Matt, Haley) 

 As usual, we took our end of year photo to include in the teacher gift.  Ava decided to wear one of the outfits I made her.

 On Thursday evening, they held the Sending Forth program.  The kids each had their name called to recognize that they were "graduating" and then all the classes sang some cute songs.  I'll have to upload Ava singing some of the songs from my phone (although not from the actual program since it is hard to ever get a good video there).

 Ryan surprisingly, sat in our laps for the entire hour and a half!  That just does not happen in this wiggly guy's world.

When it was time to leave, the girls all gave Ms. Mary a hug.  She told me later that in the middle of the program, Ava looked at her with tears in her eyes and said 'Ms. Mary, I don't want to leave preschool ever!"  She really is going to miss Ms. Mary, Ms. Lori and a lot of her friends. This was such a great year at preschool.

 You can see that she is starting to get emotional here hugging Ms. Lori.

 After that, we took a few photos of her and her friends.  With Addi and Avery.

 And with Addi & Sienna (I like to call them the 3 Amigos because all year long all I heard about was Addi & Sienna!)