Preschool Graduation

I'm sure I'm not the only one that agrees with the line in The Incredibles, "It's not a graduation. He's moving from the second grade into the third grade." Nonetheless, I have to say I thought a little "graduation ceremony" was a cute way to end our year-long preschool co-op.

Here are all six of us mom-teachers with our kids:

 I couldn't have asked for a better group of ladies to do this with. It's been a great year, and Michael has learned a lot.

 Ashley is a former elementary school teacher, and she's also the one who designed/created the curriculum that we used this year. The graduation ceremony/party was at her house. She made these cute cupcakes for the occasion:

 She asked each of us to bring something for a picnic. Since I thought, "picnic", I brought my apples in a ziploc bag, and my strawberries in their plastic crate. I felt a little ghetto when I saw how she'd decorated the table.

 See my bag of apples and strawberries? Why didn't I just let Brian keep them on the paper plate?! Aren't girls silly?

Rachel loved the picnic idea. She sat right down like she was one of those kids:

 They made these drums and shakers for the festivities and performed all the preschool songs for us. They also recited all their letters and counted to 20.

 Then they each got a diploma, signed by all their teachers:

 And after they all got their diplomas,

 They got to throw their hats up in the air:

 And Rachel got to feed the boy next door:

Thanks for a great year, ladies. It's been fun, and I'm a little sad to see it end. But I'm also looking forward to sending Michael to an actual preschool next year. This was a ton of work! Congrats, Michael! I'm so proud of you!