What A Character!

Well, we had another graduation in the family tonight. Sadie offically graduated from kindergarten. Last Friday we found out that Sadie had been nominated by her classmates to be their classes character of the year. Her school emphasizes building good character as part of the curriculum. She was surprised to find out that she had won and then went on to tell me that she voted for her friend Taylor since their teacher said they couldn't write their own names down. We were pretty proud of her and this great accomplishment of being character of the year. We started out the graduation evening by eating at her restaurant of choice which was Red Robin. Then we headed over to Target to purchase a little graduation gift of her choosing. I think she is the only kid I know who would choose a giant workbook for her graduation/start of summer gift. As we walked into her school for graduation a familiar song was playing. After listening for a minute I realized it was the same song that was played prior to mine and Brad's graduation from high school over 11 years ago. I think it is called "Graduation Song" by Vitamin C. Anyway- kind of surreal to hear that at our oldest child's kindergarten graduation. Brad of course has no recollection of the song- I am not surprised. There was a cute program that followed with the kids singing songs and talking about their favorite parts of kindergarten. Their teacher dedicated a poem to them that was very sweet and then presented each student with a copy as they walked across the stage and had their names read. They get their actual diplomas in two days on the last day of school. Incentive for them to keep coming I think. Anyway- it was a great night and Sadie did a fantastic job. We are so proud of her and the great year she had in kindergarten. Now onto first grade... after these next two summer months that will be filled with time spent doing many worksheets from her new workbook.