1st grade performance

Today the 1st grade classes gave a patriotic performance. They've been practicing hard for weeks. They had six songs (like Yankee Doodle, My Country 'Tis of Thee, America the Beautiful, etc) and in between each song that the five classes of 1st graders would sing together there would be a poem that each individual class would recite. They had little hand motions during their songs and Libby's class had little hand motions during their poem. The teachers got white shirts with American flags on them for all of the children to wear and they were so so super cute up there singing their little hearts out. I couldn't have been more proud! :-) The performance was at 9:45 this morning and after it was over they invited us to stick around and have lunch with the children since it was almost thier lunch time. They headed back to class at 11:15 so it was time for me to finally head in to work. Here are some pictures from today (Libby is in the back row)... http://www.flickr.com/photos/14165538@N05/

Wednesday was progress report day - and of course little Miss Libby had an excellent report card! She had great grades so we celebrated (like always) with cupcakes. :-)

Yesterday was as busy as any other Thursday. I volunteered in Libby's class from 7:30 until noon and then I went home to eat a quick lunch and then I was back to pick up Libby at 1:45. We had four errands to run in 45 minutes which I thought was going to be impossible but we actually got everything done and by 3:00 we were at her art lesson. When the art lesson was over we went home and she did her homework and played for a few minutes and then we ate a quick dinner and it was time to be on our way to Ryan's weekly Thursday night softball game (which they won 11-5!).

It's been a busy (but great!) last few days. Tomorrow at 11:00am Libby has a birthday party at Build-a-Bear which she is totally thrilled about. She has never been to a Build-a-Bear birthday party before and apparently each child gets to make a bear during the party so I think she is more excited about that rather than helping the birthday girl celebrate her birthday! :-)