As of noon today, all 4 kiddos are checking off the box for the 2017-2018 school year – with straight A’s in the grade book.  Yeah baby!  This day always comes with a lot of excitement and also a little stress about how to handle all of the after school plans.  I’m only one person, I can’t be at 4 after school outings at once.  Thank goodness for all moms pooling this duty together.  Today I was in charge of handling my girls and my boys were off and running with other groups.  And we made it through!  Here are the highlights for today…

Reece

Came out of school bawling that she will miss her teacher.  Mrs. Anderson is amazing but this is definitely a first for me.  In all the years, I’ve never had a child cry on the last day of school.  What a bummer to start the summer out crying!  After grabbing lunch at Goodcents and making a craft at home with her friend Kenley, she was all smiles.

This is a cute video of her class in the last few minutes of the school day…

Drew

Gathered with 17 boys at the Coad’s brand new house behind the school for pizza and gatorade.  They started walking to the mini golf course nearby and he apparently got stung by a bee.  He powered through the afternoon but by the time I saw him, his leg was visibly swollen and he was limping.  This kid has the worst luck ever!

I love this pic on the ‘almost last day of school’ of the kids playing with shaving cream –  SO FUN!

Jake

Made his own plans to celebrate after school which included going to a house party with 3 friends.  However, it also included 5 girls!  What!?  I’m definitely not on board with this plan but he said they were just going to eat and play sports outside and it would be weird if he broke the plans.  I asked if I could bring anything to the party and he insisted that it was all taken care of.  When I finally got in touch with him by 3pm (I guess he lost track of time when I said call me when you get to the party), it seemed like the afternoon was a blast – they ate a ton of good food catered in by Buffalo Wild Wings in a very nice home and played soccer outside.  Then off to golf practice at Lake Quivira.  Sounds like a boys’ dream…wings, girls, soccer & golf!

 

Morgan

I picked up these adorable girls and dropped them off at Spin Pizza for lunch.  They are so cute (for now – until they trade in these cute outfits for Nike running shorts and cut up t-shirts for the summer)!  They were busy talking about their finals and their grades, and still ordering kids meals even though they are Sophomores in high school now!  Morgan pulled off straight A’s and had a range of emotions during final exams.  One minute she was doing a cartwheel in her History classroom and the next minute she was welling up with tears!

In the meantime, Reece has done it again…she’s created the most fabulous place to play in the corner of our family room.  Reece’s Art Center is in full working order.  She is watching YouTube videos on how to draw and coming up with some really great art pieces!!  Check back soon…I will have some awesome art to share!

Goodbye 9th, 6th, 4th, and 2nd Grade!  Happy Summer!