End of Preschool Year 2!

Ella is finished with preschool for the year! She did really well this year in her class of 14 and bonded much more than last year with the kids in her class. There was more clique-ishness in a class of 3 and 4 year olds than I would have liked/expected but hopefully Ella is learning some valuable lessons about how to handle that. A few weeks ago her class sent home inviations for a "Mother's Day Garden Party" to all the moms and we got to join them for a fun day at school complete with refrshments they made themselves, bouquets of paper flowers, a special song, and some beautiful artwork they'd made for us. It was a lot of fun!

Ella and her girlfriends :-)

Performing their song (Skinamerinki-dinky-dink...Skinamerinki-do...I-LOVE-YOU!)

And Ella with her best buddy from school, Sophie, playing dress up at our house.

Mother's Day (numero dos)

After church we went to my grandmother's house for a belated Passover Seder/Mother's Day celebration :-)


My grandmother striking a pose-she is SO hysterical!

Ella was so excited for me to read the card she and Chris gave me.


Finally! A recent pic of Chris and me!

Ella found the "afikoman" (hidden matzo-part of the passover tradition)

It's really fun to do all of the same things I grew up doing and passing on the traditions :-)

Mother's Day (part one)

We had a very full Mother's Day seeing both families in one day with church in between!

Ella painted some wooden flowers for all the moms :-)

We had a huge breakfast feast with Chris' family and Ella got to give Mom-mom a huge card we found that would be easier for her to see! Ella liked it because it also played music :-)

A good pic of the sisters-in-law

All the cousins and their moms :-)

A failed cousin pic but funny nonetheless!

Luau!

For Mother's Day all of the moms received hand-made invitations last week to come to a luau! It was a lot of fun and heart-meltingly cute to see all they prepared for us! When we first walked in the kids presented each mom with a lei and showed us where our seats were. Then they "performed" two songs for us.




Then we had our very pretty (and creative!) flower-shaped snack. (And even as a flower stem, Ella wouldn't eat the celery, oh well.)


Then each kid gave their mom a present with Hawaiian-themed wrapping paper the kids made. Inside were these framed hand prints with a little poem. SO cute! They had me make the hand prints last month and I honestly forgot about it so it was a sweet surprise to see that Ella had done hand prints over them. The words on it say "Hand in hand we will be forever, you and me."

We later played limbo and had a dance party until it was time to go. Thank you Ella for a very sweet Mother's Day!