Preschool Graduation

Saturday night, Jared took Koria and Kimball to their preschool graduation while I stayed home with Luke and Layne. From Jared's report, they both did great. They, of course, explained that they got to sit on the very back row, on "the big seats" due to their stature. We explained that this would probably be the theme for the rest of their lives and that height is a very good thing. Both had memories their parts well, Kimball's about body juice sucking spiders that "paralyze or kill their victims when they inject venom using their fangs," and Koria's about the cycle of change that a caterpillar undergoes to become a butterfly after "it's new skins splits open" and it comes out of it's "chrysalis." Big words for five-year-olds. They did great.

Jared said that after the program was done, all of the children had a chance to march down the middle isle to receive their diplomas (by the teacher's husband). All of the kids where instructed to walk slowly down the isle while their teacher read some information about each one. Jared said that Kimball, in typical Kimball fashion, ran/skipped the whole way, to great laughter from the crowd. We found out that his favorite foods are apples, bananas, and various other fruits, that he wants to become three things professionally: an airplane pilot, a chef, and a firefighter, and that his favorite person is MOM (had to capitalize it-- that gives him huge points in this house), and his favorite place to be in camping with Dad.

Koria tends to shy up a bit in the public spotlight, and did well, but kept her pace to the norm. Her favorite person (at least on the day of the interview) was a friend in the ward that she'd been playing with named Libby, her favorite foods are chicken noodle soup and quesadillas, she wants to be a teacher when she grows up (she would be a great one), and her favorite place to be is Disneyland.

They were all smiles when they returned home and had to tell me all about it. They learned a lot this year, including how to read and count past 100, increased their abilities in cutting and coloring, as well as writing, and further developed their memorization skills and made lasting friendships.

Their teacher spoke with Jared after the program about how "brilliant they are." No need to expound -- if you know them, you'll agree. They amaze me with all they learn and how fast they catch on to concepts. I hope that they always have such a love of learning. Education is powerful.