Summer Time! Summer Time! Sum-Sum-Summer Time!

It is officially Summer Vacation here in FamilyOf5Land! The boys and I picked up the Princess from school this afternoon, and per her report card, she is officially promoted to First Grade! It was a mad house at the school today. Princess's school has a tradition (that I didn't know about) to parade all of the outgoing 5th graders through the hallway the last day of school. The kids attend 6th grade at another school. Getting to the Kindergarten hallway was crazy with the Prince walking and the Knight in a stroller! The Prince was quite overwhelmed by the number of people in the hallway. I picked him up so he could see better, and he just snuggled with me! The Knight was quite content to sit in his stroller and say "Hewwo!" to anyone who caught his attention. Princess was in her classroom, and we picked her up and drove her home! She made one last trip to the Treasure Chest today and got a neat Princess Frisbee! I think all of the kids got one last visit to the Treasure Chest - a nice way to begin the summer. It has been a wild Kindergarten year! On to 1st Grade!

Princess Goes to the Treasure Chest

I finally figured out why the Princess was working so hard to be on Super Star every day for the last month or so. Her substitute teacher stocked up Teacher's treasure chest with some high ticket items, namely sidewalk chalk. The Princess went to the treasure chest right before Teacher was out for a month, so she had to be on her very best behavior to fill up her Good Behavior Chart before all of the sidewalk chalk had been chosen. As of last Friday, the Princess needed one more sticker to go before she could visit the Treasure Chest. She earned that last sticker yesterday and was lucky enough to visit the Treasure Chest before one of her classmates who also had her eyes on the sidewalk-chalk-prize could get it. To make a long story short, Princess came home with the coveted sidewalk chalk last night. She was PROUD! She carried it home on the bus instead of putting it into her backpack. She explained to me that it was very fragile and that the boys could not play with it until she had played with it first because she had earned it. It has been rainy for the last couple of days here so we could not go out and play with it last night, so I let the Princess and the Prince used the chalk on our inside chalkboard. This has a white board on the other side and we usually use the white board - less mess for MomOf3 to clean up. This was a very special day. Princess does have a competitive steak! I am happy that she met her goal and won her prize!