The Spies Family: Preschool Promotion!!!

I can hardly believe that Morgan is finished with preschool. It seems like just yesterday that she turned 3 and we were preparing to begin preschool at VIP. I have to say that the experience of preschool for Morgan has been amazing. The staff and teachers at VIP are exceptional and have done such an amazing job preparing Morgan for kindergarten. David and I have already decided that hands down Makenzie will be going to VIP for preschool. Although it would be so much easier to take her to the preschool at my school and having her at VIP means having David going into work late everyday for 2-3 years....it will be so worth it. We are just so thankful to everyone at VIP who has been a part of our little girl's preschool experience. I know Morgan is really going to miss them all.

Thursday evening was preschool promotion. David's brother, Brad, came down from Phoenix to meet Makenzie and see Morgan's promotion. My dad and JoAnne stayed to see it as well. So around 3 David went to school to pick up Morgan with Brad. Morgan was so excited to see her uncle. When they arrived home the rest of the crew was there: Donna, Charley, my dad, and JoAnne. We grilled up some hot dogs and hamburgers and enjoyed a nice family dinner thanks to Donna before heading up to the high school for the ceremony.

Our little graduate! She looks like a mini-professor. So cute!

Our family. We are just so PROUD of our little graduate!

Morgan waiting to get on stage to perform.

During the promotion celebration each class got on the stage and sang a song. Morgan's class sang a song to the tune of Who Let the Dog.s Out but they sang about the letters doing each of the letter sounds and signing the letters. It was very cute. Morgan loves to sign the letters...of course some letters are easier for her to make than others. It is actually great OT work for her hands.

Can you tell she is trying to belt out the words?

A, ah, ah, ah, ah.....

Love how happy she looks up there. She loves being on stage!

At the end all the classes together sang Kindergarten Here We Come!

Uncle Brad and the graduate.

After the celebration was over we all went back to our house for some dessert. Well...most of us. We actually did not bring Makenzie with us. I didn't want to expose her to all the people and GERMS. At first we thought we were going to have to ask one of the grandparents to sit out promotion (not that any of them would have minded one on one time with Makenzie), but Georgia volunteered to baby sit for us. We are so thankful to have such wonderful friends so close by. So on our way up to promotion we dropped Makenzie off. Makenzie did a great job for the most part, but woke up very hungry so I ran to Georgia's to feed her before heading home. By the time Makenzie and I got home everyone was there and playing outside on Morgan's swing set.

Knowing me very well and knowing how hard it is to leave your 3 day old baby Georgia sent us text updates throughout the promotion with pictures too!