Happy 200th Day of School!

Today, J. and his preschool classmates celebrated their 200th day of school with a party. It was a great morning full of games, dancing, pizza, ice cream sundae's, more junk food, play time, gifts and good times. Here are a few of my favorites...

The whole crew...

Red Light. Green Light. Go. (look who's winning!)

Ms. Kara uses sign language with the children throughout their school day. J. knew many signs from his Project HELP days but he has really broadened his sign language since January. He even tries to teach MG sign language, much to her dismay. In this photo, J. just finished signing to Ms. Kara "Good Good Good Good Good Morning Teacher" and Ms. Kara is signing "Thank You" in return.


Ms. Kara telling the children how lucky she is to be their teacher. It was a really sweet moment. She put on a brave face for them but I know how hard that must of been for her. She genuinely loves these children.







Group hug...

We had said our goodbye's and made it to the van when J. looked like he was about to cry. I asked him if he was OK and he said, "I need to go back and give Ms. Kara one more hug and tell her I love her". He quickly jumped back out of his seat and ran back to the front door. He gave her another big hug and ran away telling her he loved her. He was a little sad this afternoon and kept asking me what happens on Tuesday. I guess he's just stuck with me for a while. I'm not half as fun as Ms. Kara and five other preschool friends...but I'll do my best to try.