My Graduate

Ok, so I thought that having my baby go off to Kindergarten this year was hard.  It wasn't so bad.  Working as the school/church secretary, I actually got to see more of her then I would have if she was still in preschool.  I was wrong. 

On Monday, graduation practice began.  Although the K5's only wore their caps to get used to that tassel flying around, it was still tough.  Thankfully, on Wednesday, I had a preview of my emotion as we had a full rehearsal.  BUT NOTHING prepared me to see my little girl walk down that aisle. She actually appears shy in this picture!  She was so cute.  She did exactly what she was supposed to do.  She was so adorable.  It was like this whirlwind of my little girl is growing up emotion!

Her class did a presentation of poems, verses, and songs they had learned throughout the year.  It was so cute to see them all do the motions.  My favorite was their "Graduation song" they did as a finale.  It goes like this:  "1 plus 1 is 2, 2 plus 2 is 4, 4 plus 4 is 8, 8 plus 8 is FIRST GRADE!"  Too cute.  I love how none of their tassels are correct during this presentation.  They had all been jiggled around.  Thankfully our K5 teacher fixed them before they left for the platform. :)

One of the great privileges that all of our children have had is having Daddy as administrator.  Dan has been able to give all of our girls their K5 diplomas.  I can't imagine how hard it will be if he has to give them their high school diplomas.  It was so precious as he bent down to take his moment of being DADDY.  Sarah was so surprised.  He hadn't practiced it that way.  Wow, that was another great moment!

Of course, no graduate is ready without her tassel turned and her diploma in hand.  We had this great photo diplomas for our K5 students this year.  As the cover opens, on one side there was a graduation portrait , and on the other a very nice diploma.  They looked great!

Of course, we had a wonderful photo time following graduation.  One is never quite sure exactly what smile Sarah will give.  We have to work on the natural pose smile for a while.