Today was Owen's Summer Celebration at Saint James School - aside from the Christmas Pageant, which was put on by the entire school, today was the first school event that Matt and I attended that was solely for the benefit of Owen and his PreK-4 classmates.
Of course, all those little magpies were SUPER cute, marching into the gymnasium and ascending the stairs to the stage, taking their assigned places, singing their songs (or shouting as the case might be).
Unexpectedly, each child spoke into the microphone and asked their respective parents to come up on the stage to receive a photo book. A couple of times I teared up (regardless of pregnancy hormones, I would have done the same thing on a normal day) and I was able to keep it together, until Mrs. Carpenter reminded me of the first day of class when I teared up dropping Owen off for class. She and I are sentimental-types and I sensed a kindred spirit in her from the beginning. The fact that she remembered our shared moment from back in September was sweet. In addition, she shared with us that she absolutely loved Owen's comments - Apparently, at one point during the year Owen told her, "you never know what each day will bring."
Turns out both her mother and she posted Calvin and Hobbes comic strips on their refrigerators and Mrs. Carpenter was pleasantly surprised to hear that Owen has a special fondness for Calvin.
The icing on the Summer Celebration cake was tonight, when Matt was tucking Owen into bed and telling him how proud he was of Owen's performance and his accomplishments in PreK, when Owen asked if now he was going to Kindegarten. When Matt replied yes, Owen started to cry because he was concerned that in Kindegarten there wouldn't be much play time...
Poor little boy: ) he doesn't know that Kindegarten at KCS will actually be 15 minutes shorter!
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