School Days

Today is Maxwell’s last day of school…well, until summer school starts next week!  🙂  But, this is his last day with his first ever school class and beloved teachers.  It’s been a fantastic year full of new friends, lots of pat-pat (crafts) and lessons learned.  I’m so glad I sent Maxwell this year and I know he loved it!  Besides, sending him to school let me do my very favorite thing in the world each Tuesday and Thursday – pick him up from school!  There’s nothing better than walking into that room, spotting him first and then watching him see me and run over to me with is arms stretched out for a big hug.  Nothing better in the world.

Here’s his class picture from this year…

This thing cracks me up.  The kids all look like deers in headlights and Maxwell, poor sweet Maxwell, was having a really rough morning if you can’t tell from his red, crying eyes.  The picture was just 2 days after he broke his leg so I had taken him up to school just for the picture but wasn’t going to leave him obviously (he couldn’t even crawl at this point).  When I handed him over to his teacher for the picture he flipped out and started hysterically crying.  I don’t know if he was afraid I was going to leave him?  or if he was just having a rough day because of his leg?  Regardless, it took a good 10 minutes to get him to calm down enough to snap this lovely picture.

ps – see the little girl standing up to his right?  that’s his much loved Caitlyn that I’ve told you about!  I love that they’re next to each other in the picture.  🙂

I’m so thankful to Maxwell’s teachers, Alice, Faye and Fran for making it a great first year at school!  I sent them each a little gift card with this picture on the front of a card that I made…

Inside the card read, “Thank you for making my first year of school so fantastic.  I really appreciate your hard work, love and patience.  Love, Maxwell”

I hope they like it!  🙂