::last day::

Today was Max's final day of nursery school. I can hardly believe it! I mean, it seemed like the winter lasted a lifetime, but it feels like his school year just flew by.
The kids have grown so much in the last nine months--in lots of ways.

I don't know if I've talked about this before, but this school is a co-op school, where parents are involved in all aspects of the school. That means that I got to go in and be the teachers' aid at least once a month during the year. It was so nice because it let me have a little window into his world. I got to know the other kids at school, as well as the teachers, and I was able to observe the way their days went, so I could ask him better questions.
The co-op set up builds a community of parents around the kids, and it's really cool.

Today we all got together at the end of class, and the kids sang a long silly song they'd made up. Then each kid got a little certificate of completion. Then they all got ice cream. TONS of ice cream.
It was a fun little party.

I had to extract Max from a lip locked bear hug at one point with a little boy that adores him. It was pretty funny.
We're going to miss the kids and teachers, it's been a great school year!

(Max's b-day didn't get celebrated in school because we were out of town all of feb--they put him in with the summer birthdays today, and he was pretty happy about it.)

Thanks to our wonderful friends that told us about this school, we were lucky to know about it and to get him in!