MIA...oh and graduation

So for all of you bugging me to post here more often, I will refer you back to my initial post about how I make no promises on quality and quantity...and leave it at that. :) You know who you are...
Anyway because it has been forever since I have posted I figured I would take you back in time to where I left off and fill you in on life up until now (my goal is one a day for the next few days, but I know myself and am not sure it will happen). So strap in because we are goin' for it!

We left our hero (Lil Man of course) in preschool with just a few short weeks left until his time there was finished. Imagine if you will a week full of celebrating teachers and showing them appreciation, so Lil Man and I decided to do just that. We never shy away from a craft opportunity! On Monday we gave them a frame with a cute teacher quote inside:
On top was a note from Lil Man "Dear MS (fill in Ellen or Lori :) ) Thank u for being my teecher. I had fun plaing at scool. My favorit is wen u reed books to us and then giv us snacs. Thanks for being nis all the tim. Luv COULTER" Sweet huh? But then he drew a picture of an alien abduction on Ms Ellen's letter and told her to watch our for aliens this summer and then Ms Lori got a picture of a flower field, a tree, and him walking with her saying that the best kind of flowers are blue. Can you guess which teacher he worked better with?

OK next.....Well I must admit it has been too long and I didn't take a pic of the second gift so, if I told one of you what we did please let me know and I will add it in here. Yes I know I am lame.

On the last day Lil Man made super cute flowers with scrapbook paper and pipcleaners and we wrapped them around chocolate dippend pretzels we made. It was so cute! We put them in a tin bucket that I punched holes in around the top and strung a ribbon through...please just imagine it with me because again no pics (again, yes I know I'm lame). The best part of the flowers were the leafs that Lil Man cut out and I wrote quotes on. Throughout the year I had written down little things he had said about school and such and those are what I put on the leaves. Here are my favorites:

"Sometimes I think my teachers are smarter than Yoda"
"How do my teachers always know how to teach lessons? Is there a class for that or something?" "School makes me wanna dance...but not at school because there we are supposed to sit nicely"
"Snack time is the best part of school because it is yumalicious, even the fruit parts"
"Art things are fun to color and glue and put things on other things, but the best part is to just wash your hands at the end because man they get slimy" (Man is he a Thomas!!!)
But my favorite of all favorites is "My teachers like to teach kids how to do things except for how to fight ninjas, but I think that is because there are no ninjas at my school." Hmmmmmm...

All in all it was fun to try and spoil the teachers for one week, because heaven knows our teachers don't get enough love from their paychecks!

Fast forward a couple of weeks to graduation day!! I tell ya, nuthin tugs at the heart like a bunch of lil ones pushing and shoving each other to be seen by their parents cameras. The kids sang a few songs (Tingalaya will be forever burned into my brain),
then they called their names to walk across the stage and receive their diploma. I would have been crying huge tears like a baby, and I was close. But just as I was about to squirt some my son turned quickly to say something to his friend behind him and whipped himself in the eye with his tassles so he spent the next song trying to blink out the pain. Oh yeah, and he also said (rather loudly) to that same friend that their diplomas were "more than completely awesome because we can make them into lightsabers later to battle", man do school gyms echo.....
The gym was decorated like an art museum with each child getting a space with a poster showcasing some of their art from the year and I thought it was really cute! The night ended with a HUGE and very random potluck dinner, lots of pictures with teachers and friends and he got to keep his tassle which was the source of great happiness! There was also a lightsaber battle as promised because the rolled up papers they were handed really were just scatch paper and we got a "real" diploma later. Weird.

All in all it was a fun night and Lil Man was so proud that he did it. Lastly, he asked a few moms for their phone numbers, he said it was so he could call his friends to play over the summer, but you never know! We are a little sad that most of his friends will be going to a different elementary school when the start the big K-word, but I guess that is what we get for going to a preschool where the fancy kids go! :)
So we will just look at is as a new opportunity to make new friends right!!!??? Man is this kid's mom nervous.

So if you are still reading this that is it for this time travel adventure, and hopefully I will see you tomorrow with another installment...let's just say it involves water, balls, shovels, and rashes in places that there should not be rashes!!

ps, for some reason I am having issues with the formatting, but it is too late and I am too tired to care. :) Hope you all can survive the visual eye scraping.