The End of Another Year

Where has the year gone?  It seems like a blur but it is official that summer has began and we are getting closer and closer to moving from San Antonio.  The kids both had great years in school and were sad to know that they would be leaving their friends and wonderful teachers.  I was a terrible mother and forgot to check the battery in the camera before Taylor's graduation so we really didn't get many pictures of that but here she is with her two teachers on the last day of school.  Taylor learned so much in school this year.  It seemed like overnight she went to reading small sight word books to reading easy chapter books.  She is still my little rule follower and would report home every day who could not follow the rules.  It's funny that she acts like she doesn't understand how people can want to break the rules yet she breaks rules at home all the time. I think she puts home and school in different categories.  She went to a week of dance camp at the YMCA this week and she was worried that if she missed the first day of camp then she might miss the explanation of the rules and it would be awful.  It seems that some kids in the camp didn't have a problem breaking rules and the whole group had to sit out of free play time as punishment.  Taylor pointed out to me one of the girls that caused the problem and told how she stood up when they were supposed to be sitting and you could tell Taylor was MAD about it.  She cracks me up.

For some reason Ethan's school handed out certificates in class rather than an assembly and decided not to tell the parents about it.  It is so frustrating because there are quite a few parents that are in the school almost every day so they get information but the teachers don't seem to feel the need to pass the information along to the other parents that try to keep a reasonable distance from the classroom.  So I was a little bummed that I didn't get to see Ethan get his award for the top reader in his class.  He has really started reading for fun lately and can plow through some pretty big books.  I am really hopeful that his class next year will be able to challenge him instead of just giving him lots of time to read books in class.

Of course Abe was also a big graduate this year.  We are so proud of him finishing is EM residency.  It has been a long 7 years of medical school and residency and I can't believe it is over.  With all the bumps we have had in the road during those 7 years it seems like a miracle but we are so excited for Abe to start a new chapter in his life.  He is a pretty amazing doctor!

 For graduation/Father's Day we got Abe a projector to watch movies on and it has been so fun.  The kids have decided it is so much better than the movies.  I see a lot of movie nights in our future.  Other than the truck, I think it is one of the few presents I have surprised Abe with that he has really liked.