School Picture Day

Matching of course....Love these beautifully handsome faces

First day of FIFTH and SECOND grade

Wow...I am lonely all ready! I wish my kiddos could be at home with me, while I enjoy my little break! I hope that you school year is fantastic! Aidan has Mrs.Katz again this year...at Pointview the first grade teachers move up with the students to second grade. Aidan really liked her so we were really happy about that. Because the kids are at different schools I didn't get a pic with Blaise and Mrs. Roberts I will have to do a post about that later!
Becasue the kiddos looked so georgeous and I think the first day of school is so important I stopped at Inniswood after school....awesome photo opportunities! I LOOOVEEEE the close-ups of Blaise and Aidan...and the fauz modeling pose of Aidan was so dorky that I had to post it!

Blaise's Last Day of Fourth Grade

Blaise had the wonderful Mrs. Bartlett this year....she actually cried after I took this picture because she liked Blaise so much.....I can not explain what a sweet boy he is....Here is a picture of him on his first day of fourth grade....

Just a snapshot from the past...here is bubby on his first day of first grade.....

My how they grow........

Super Games

The Wilder PTA in lieu of having a field day for the kids had a day with Super Games.....I volunteered to help and or course ended up on a water-gun game! The kids were supposed to shoot cups, but what is the fun in that????? So I just let them shoot eachother until they were soaked.....it was much more fun that way!!!! I was only a little worried of getting sent to the principals office....memories of my youth!

The kids got to enjoy Dippin Dots....inflatables

They had games, stations, and watering holes all over the place...I even snuck up on Blaise and soaked him with one of my supersoakers.....

Blaise had a blast with his friends....I can't believe that after tommorow they will all be fifth graders!

We sure will miss Mrs. Bartlett!

Finally what is a day full of games without a cookout?????

After all the fun Blaise needed a little time to relax in the cool air conditioning and do a word search!

Fourth Grade Pool Party

It is a pool party...Mrs.Walker was sweet enough to host a pool party at her house for the entire fourth grade. Blaise was extremely excited to go. Matt and I had a good time eating the food, and talking with the other parents. It has been a while since I've had any social outings....Personally I can not believe that my oldest baby will have his last year in elementary school, he will be one of the oldest kids in the school and I remember so well when he was the youngest little guy, and would climb into my lap everytime I helped in the classroom. What a sweet sweet boy and how lucky am I to call him my son!

Zoo week two~

This time it was Blaise's turn....wow what a difference seven fourth grade boys are compared to six first grade girls! Both were hard work....and the more class trips I go on the more I appreciate ELEMENTARY school teachers. I was so tired that I had to sleep on the bus ride home! Wow...what a drama filled day, the kids are at the age that not everyone gets along! It was still fun....and I was excited because I haven't been to the North America section of the zoo in forever...somehow I have missed the bald eagle, grizzly bears, and the moose!!!! Here are some pics of our group.
Above:Blaise and his best friend Justin


Our group:
Reid(Justin's triplett brother) Cody, Tobias, Justin, Nick, and Noah

From left:

Justin, Blaise, Cody, Noah, Nick

An Interview with Blaise

Blaise was chosen this year to represent his class to participate in the Westerville Leadership Summit. The representatives went to two summit meetings throughout the year to learn how to better be a leader, then they came back to the school and worked with the principal to plan some community service projects for the whole school to participate in. Friday, Blaise went to the final meeting of the year. It is a great honor to be chosen for the summit and we are very proud of Blaise. He is a leader, not a boisterous one be a gentle leader who does what is right even though sometimes he is ridiculed by his classmates. This will be a quality that will help him tremendously as he grows into a wonderful man. Here is a little interview with Blaise....

How are you?

Fine....I had a good day.

How did you feel about being chosen for the leadership summit?

I felt great because there is only three years that you can be chosen to be in the leadership summit.

What was the most important thing thing that you learned there?

I learned how to be a leader, and work together really good with other people.

What was your fav part?

Getting to write pen-pal letters to senior citizens at the Village at Westerville.

What was your service project?

Pennies for Patients and Penpals

Which speaker did you like?

I liked them all, but my favorite was the leader of the good program.

What is the good program?

Something that you do that helps blind people, and make sure that you don't make fun of them because of their disability. The symbol for the good program is a lion that is blind, and their motto is when the going gets tough the tough gets going.

What do you want to teach other people?

I want to teach people to be a leader and to work well with others. A good leader doesn't always take all the credit, there are other people that deserve it to.

How has being a rep for your grade helped you this year?

It helped me to understand to be a leader and lots of other stuff.

Is there anything else that you want to say?

At the end of every summit they bring someone special out...the first time a puppeteer came and he was really good. The second time a magician came and he did lots of tricks.