A Long Time Coming

Back in the end of May a very important event happened. One of many huge milestones occurred. Abigail finished her first year of school... preschool that is! Much to my disappointment, I forgot the camera. Thankfully Tim had his phone and took the most essential pictures. So forever they were on his phone, which is why I never blogged about Abigail's last day of school. Then one day Tim's phone fell out of his pocket and into the toilet. The first thing that I said when he told me was "Abbey's last day of school pictures were on that phone!" Lucky for me I married a electronic man. In a pure miraculous act, Tim was able to blindly activate the storage mode on his phone to download the files from his phone to the computer! It was a miracle, the screen was black forcing him to use my phone as a guide to what keys to push to get where he needed to be and once he got it all done the phone wouldn't even turn on again. So, as titled, it has been a long time coming, but here are the pictures of Abbey's last day of preschool.

We got there a little late and walked into their little program. It was really cute, they sang a few songs. The only one I can remember now was Bingo. The kids with the graduation hats were obviously moving on to Kindergarten. Abbey and some other students that would have another year in preschool had on party hats. No surprise to me, Abbey's hat feel off leaving only the string visible under her chin. Look at all the boys in her class (yes thats a boy to the left of her with long hair). She had them wrapped around her little finger. One of the moms said to me, "Oh, thats Abbey... my son talks about her all the time!" I better watch out, if she is anything like her mother she might be kissing the boys by kindergarten!

After the program and class video, which made me get all emotional. They served refreshments. It was really cute watching how the few girls in her class wanted to sit next to Abbey to eat.

Here is Abbey with one of the most talked about friends, Mariposa. Very often Abbey would want her hair braided like Mariposa's hair. Mariposa must have really loved Abbey too because her dad was very adamant about getting those two in a picture together. I hope that they will be in the same class this coming year!

Here are the teacher aids and her teacher. Miss Kim is top left. She is in our ward along with Miss Tamera, who is siting with Abbey. Miss Tamera moved out of state after the school year, we were very sad about this. Abbey loves to see Miss Kim and Miss Tamera at church. Upper right is Teacher Julie. I am so happy that she will be Abbey's teacher next year too. She is a great teacher! She took the time to go through all her students and say something special about them. She said the nicest things about Abbey. Abbey was her only student that she had multiple nicknames for... Abbalou being her favorite. She said Abbey was very excited and loved to learn, and her favorite thing to do was dress up. The boy next to Abbey was so cute and confused that it wasn't his turn to take a picture. I love that Abbey found a horse and was holding it for the picture!

This was in the car after we were done at the school. Notice her party hat. She kept that hat out and played with it for at least two weeks after!

I had such an emotional tie with Abigail's first year of preschool. She did a lot of growing up and maturing throughout that year. She loved school and was always excited to go. I've had a hard time accepting that things change. Life continues to move forward and things won't ever be the same. Yet here my little four year old is ready to move forward and enjoys what is happening in the moment. I'm really happy that she will be able to go to this preschool for at least a little while next year and have the same teacher!

Whew, that was a lot of rambling... but now that I have this post done I feel like I can really start on the summer posts... be ready, there is a lot to come!