Movin’ on Up!

Preston graduated preschool.  Truly I don’t know how this happened.  It was as if I blinked, and five and half years have passed. Preston had a wonderful nanny from six months until about 22 months.  Here is Preston on his first day of school back in New York:

The past two years Montessori focused on the continents.  Therefore each child was assigned a continent to dress up as for graduation.  This caused me much stress.  We just had come up with a costume for the Q&U Wedding.  He was Antarctica. Frantically I called Miss Kim the night before who said, “Just go to Ben Franklin and get a white shirt, glue on some pom poms.  He’ll be fine.”  Recall…fear of craft stores.  I’ve talked about this on numerous occasions.  I braved Ben Franklin Thursday at lunch.  On of the paralegals even texted me during the process to make sure I was doing ok.  I was actually quite pleased with the costume I came up with!  Although when I came home and he asked me if I got his costume, I replied with, “Yes.  You will be the best Asia ever.”  He seriously almost had a heart attack. “MOM!  I’m Antarctica! I told you that!”  (*evil snicker). I bought him Where the Sidewalk Ends since he is loving all the poems in A Light in the Attic.  I wrote, “May your sidewalk never end.”  I also bawled when buying him a card that played “Pomp and Circumstance.”

Of course, Preston had to be the biggest ham of all.  Here is a portion of the “Continents Song.”  The lyrics are, the world is round and there’s lots of land.  Seven big pieces and it’s really grand.  They’re called continents. Continents.”  Check out the facial expressions during the continents. He should have his own television show.

And I like the above picture so much, I’m overlooking the lipstick on my teeth.  I’m ok with it. They made buses with pictures of each kid going to the area elementary schools.

Pres with his teachers, Miss Christine, Miss Kim and Miss Suzette.

Other happenings in June.  My mother’s goddaughter Katie stopped in Virginia to sleep over on her way to New York to visit.  It’s so nice to see her always and we had a lot of laughs.

And a picture of Pres being super handsome:

My mother bought him a sleeping t-shirt with all the New York boroughs on it. He is a huge fan!

This t-shirt mom bought him which we feel sums up his love for snacks:

And because we can have no pictures lately without the signature pointing: