Cue Handel...
Edith has spent five years at her preschool, longer than she'll spend in middle school, high school, or college, for all of which she'll probably have graduation ceremonies. So it felt right that she should officially graduate from this first chapter in her scholastic career, too. All the same, I'm glad there were only seven kids in the class, because if the processional had gone on much longer I would have been a bawling mess.
Standing as the class sang her name in the opening song
Her first diploma
"What We've Learned" (sung to the Addams Family theme song), involved the use of rhythm sticks--likely to be Edith's only graduation ceremony featuring that instrument. From the graduation program I learned that Edith learned about whales in pre-K, that she wants to be an astronaut, and that in kindergarten she hopes to learn which planets have the most gravity. Her class has spent the last month building a spaceship, complete with space potty, and last week blasted off to Mercury for the afternoon. Edith was Co-Commander; some of her best friends were Chief Medical Officer, conducting routine exams of all crew members before lift-off, and Chief Scientific Officer, planning the group's zero-gravity experiments.
Have you met our fourteen year old? This picture made me gasp. Were it not for Sarah's cherubic baby chin, I'd fear we had fast-forwarded a decade.
The happy graduates
5 comments:
Oh my goodness! Where did they even find graduation gowns and mortarboards in size 4/5 years? Too adorable! In contrast, Sam's preschool graduation involved the wearing of t-shirts they'd tie-dyed and plastic flower leis. Princetonians are so *serious* ;-)
Um, when did she grow up? Seriously, amazing! Congratulations. What a great send off towards the Rockies!
What a fun ceremony! Kennan's graduation was nice...but this looked like a lot of fun!
I can't believe the little tiny cap and gowns! She does look so grown-up in that picture. Also, it makes it look she doesn't have bangs, and I never thought about that, but that's a great look for her - maybe her next hairstyle?
I agree it's a good look, and we've tried at various times to let her bangs grow out. However, she has such obstinately straight, fine, thick hair, that it's almost impossible to persuade it with barrettes or headbands or the like to lie in a direction opposite its natural fall, such that the growing out period is pretty unendurable, and we've always reverted back to cutting them. It turns out there's a genetic reason that Edith and her girl cousins all have the same haircut.
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