last day of school!!

Today ended Miss Emily's first year of school. While she had a great time and really enjoyed learning new things and interacting with so many other kids, we are both ready for this break. The biggest challenge during the school year was getting those kids to bed by 7 every night so Emily could get up at 6:30 in time to catch the bus at 6:48.

Her teacher sent out a few pictures today. Her message said,
"Summer birthdays! I still can't believe school is out. I miss them already!"

After school we had the traditional end of school celebration.
Here is the story of how it happened.

Emily was the first one out, so I couldn't get a shot of her actually getting off the bus.

"Hey, what's this table for?"

Elinor: "Here are some cookies. See?"

"Oh, I get it. Now I can smile."

It was a pretty well-attended party. We do like student housing.

We took off early to say goodbye to our good friends who were leaving. They swooped their daughter off the bus and 15 minutes later drove away forever. We will definitely miss them.

And so it begins. We will see at least six other families leave this summer.


And then Elinor came really close and stared up at me into the sun, showing off her big lips.