Lasts

We have started having our "lasts"  for the school year.
On Saturday, Benjamin had his last soccer practice.  What a fun group of kids and parents.  We are thankful to have been on the 3rd grade team with this great group.
Both kids had their last trip to the school library where they were each allowed to check out 10 books.  How cool is that?  10 books for the 7 week summer vacation.  The kids were thrilled.  Here are half of the books this kids wants to read over break.  Josie wouldn't allow photos.  #preteen!!

Also, because the school the kids' attend is K-12 we also get to experience graduation in a way through the excitement of the graduating seniors.  We went to school this week and it was complete chaos.  There was loud music playing, graffiti (removable) all over the school, it had been T.P'd and high school kids decked out in exterminator costumes with water guns and water balloons and they were celebrating but also performing kind of a reverse initiation to the underclassmen.  Any high school students that entered the gates were getting sprayed and water balloons targeted at their head.  Because we normally park our bikes up front and had no idea that this would be going on we were caught very unaware.  I was thinking "where the heck are the teachers? Where are the principals?  This is NUTS"  Once we got to the top of the ramp we saw the principals who were ushering in the smaller students and telling them they would be fine, they just needed to stay outside the roped area.  What??  At first I was a bit shaken.. I

had been sprayed in the face and tagged with a water balloon (Marty said they probably thought I was a high school student) so I was a bit pissed at first but then thought of how cool it was that it was fully endorsed by the school, the kids were able to let loose and have a somewhat organized bit of school chaos before leaving it.  It is pretty easy to just so NO to anything like this but pretty hard to walk the line between just enough and not too much.  Happy Graduation, (ABI) Seniors.