Pre-school graduation

After much delay it's about time that i got this posted. This last year Ryan got to go to pre-school, and not just any pre-school, but the very best pre-school in all the world. Grandma's preschool. Blake's mom has been teaching pre-school for 25+ years. With a few years off to serve as mission pres and wife (we teased that she was dealing with the same issues though--like teaching the missionaries to use good manners, sharing, separation anxiety, etc. just at a much later stage of life). Anyway, Ethan got to go for one year before they went on their mission and Sam missed the boat completely. When mom and dad got home mom was teaching 1st grade at Orem Elementary, but missed her pre-school so much that she went back to pre-school. YEAH!!!!! (I was always hoping she would). So Ryan gets to do two full years with "grandma teacher" (that's what he calls her). Ryan absolutely loved it and is soo excited that he gets to go again after the summer. The other day mom stopped by and was giving ryan a hug and she told him how much she missed seeing him. So the next day as we were driving by grandma's street to go to the grocery store, Ryan in a matter-of-fact voice said to me "mom, grandma misses me, cause i don't go to preschool right now so she misses me some times." I told him she probably misses him all the time. He said "yeah, but i'm going to go to preschool again".

Ryan is already supper smart, and i'm not just saying that cause i'm his mom. He really does know most of his letters and their sounds and knows all of the letters in sign language. (When i was going through them with him the other day he was telling me i was doing it wrong, and that i have to put my finger this way not that way.) For graduation they do a few songs and then get their diploma and a note on it that says what they want to be when they grow up. Ryan said he wants to be an airplane driver. I had no idea. All the songs they did were great and i could have totally loaded down this one post with all the songs they did, but i just picked one. I might post one more all by it self just because it's cute, but i'll spare you all just this once.