End of the School Year

It is hard to believe it is June already since it has felt a lot more like April with all the cold wet weather.  We even woke up to snow on the ground on Memorial Day.  The last few weeks have been busy with all the end of the school year activities and ball games.  Soccer season is over now and baseball season has started...sort of.  More games have been rained out than the kids have actually been able to play.  Jason ended up coaching Jared's team by default again this year when no one else would coach.  This is Jared's first year in kid pitch.  It's been quite the experience for Jason trying to teach a bunch of 8 year olds how to pitch, and even harder, how to hit a ball pitched by a kid...  Here's Jared pitching his first baseball game!

He was so excited and you can see how serious he was taking it!  The good news is that hasn't hit any of the batters yet and last week he even struck a couple batters out.  (Of course I won't tell you how many he has walked!)  The bad news is that they are the Red Sox.  I picked up the uniforms for the team and told the guy at the recreation office that my husband would probably refuse to coach the Red Sox.  He must not have thought I was serious because he just laughed.  Jason did let the kids wear the uniform but he refused to wear it himself and gave the coach's uniform to one of the other parents helping out!

Field day at the elementary was one of the few days the sun was actually shining even though it was chilly.  Here's Andrew at the clown relay I was helping out with.

Jared's class has been getting ready for a play, Geology Rocks.  Jared has been singing the songs around the house for a month and every time I go into his classroom to help they are practicing.  It was just their class but they decided to perform it in front of the entire school.  I couldn't believe how well those second graders did!  They knew there parts so well and they were easy to hear and understand.  It was a really cute play.  I was amazed to see Jared, who has always been so shy and scared to be in front of people, singing and dancing in front of everyone!  It really brought out something in him I have never seen before!  He loved it!  Here he is dressed up as a fern.

Kaitlyn had her preschool graduation last week.  The kids sang songs and recited nursery rhymes.  They each had a couple speaking parts where they told about things they had learned and done during the year.  Kaitlyn was putting on a show like she always does when anyone watches her, dancing along to all their songs.  She had most of the parents there laughing at her.

Here she is with her preschool teacher that she has adored for the last two years, Miss Jennie.