So Long, Kindergarten

Andrew has had the most wonderful year in kindergarten with the most wonderful teacher. Yesterday we all (including Poppa and Gangee, in town for a visit) got to attend Andrew's kindergarten graduation. Happily, this was more of an end-of-the-year get-together in the classroom, not a ceremony with caps and gowns and all. However, the day before graduation, Andrew came home and told me he had to wear "wedding clothes" to graduation. Ha! And here I was planning on sending him in a polo and nice shorts. But he was very insistent. Fortunately he had a set of "wedding clothes" from Aunt Lindsay's wedding last summer. So Andrew went off to school wearing this:

And no sharp-dressed man is complete without a Shrek pocket watch (compliments of McDonald's):

Andrew's teacher later told me that when he arrived at school, all the girls in his class decided he was "the most handsome man they'd ever seen." I always thought those girls had good taste.

Here is Andrew with his fabulous kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Millett. I didn't cry during the class video, but I got a little misty looking at all the pictures of her shepherding Andrew's sweet little class throughout the year. What a wonderful, caring teacher Andrew was blessed with this year!


It was not a sad day. It was happy and cute and tender and funny...made even funnier when I realized that Andrew's buddy also accessorized with his best watch for this important occasion. Look at these two sporting their Happy Meal finest:

Yes, from start to finish, this was kindergarten at its best.