Spring Music Performance

Tonight we were treated to nearly 250 3, 4, 5, and 6 year olds singing their hearts out about penguins and other things Antarctican (is that a word?).  Each year the Montessori school they attend chooses a continent to study and this year has focused on the cold Antarctic.  All of the still pictures came out way too dark (I really want an awesome camera so I never have that problem) so here is the video.  It's a bit long - it was so long, YouTube wouldn't let me put it as one video, so I spent a night editing and you get 3 separate clips, but nothing was cut out because there really was nothing I could edit out and it's all pretty darn cute anyway.  I hope you enjoy as much as we did...

Layla's Very First Day of School

Layla started preschool today, finally, in her mind.  She has been waiting for this day for 2 years as we've taken Peyton to school everyday and she has wanted to go with him.  Mommy on the other hand, was not so ready, but I didn't shed a tear...until after I left and wanted to work, but had to take care of other "stuff" from the not so good weekend.  Here are the pictures from the morning.

 

Ready for her first day of preschool

 

Peyton is so proud to take his little sister to school.

 

Peyton telling Layla what to expect today.

 

A hug to start the big day.

 

When I asked Layla what she wanted to be when she grew up, she looked at Peyton and asked him.  He of course said "baseball player."  So, Layla turns to be and says the same thing.  Copy Cat!  But that's what we wrote.

 

And her is a close up of how Layla wrote her name before she started preschool.

 

Peyton did a great job taking his very first picture.  Too bad Mommy blinked as usual.

 His second attempt was a little blurry, but much better picture.

 Layla tried to take a picture of Peyton and Mommy.  We'll keep working on this skill.

 Layla with Mrs. Witzegreuter!

 Walking to the car with Ms. Huth

It was a good first day!