A Fond Farewell

This morning the kids and I drove down to visit Mimi at her school one last time.  We wanted to visit her room and eat lunch in the cafeteria with the big kids since Mimi only has a few days left of school!  It is hard to imagine my mom not having a classroom.  I have been going to her rooms since I was one year old!  I have plenty of memories of playing in her room using the vis-à-vis markers on the overhead projector and writing with chalk on the chalkboard, both of which aren’t even in classrooms anymore!  I wanted to visit her room one last time just as much as the kids did.  I also had to make sure that Elisabeth saw Mimi’s classroom once before it was too late, even if she is too young to remember it!  I also thought it would be fun for Abbie to eat in the cafeteria with all the elementary kids since she will be starting kindergarten in the Fall.  Everyone was so excited to see Mimi when we arrived!

The kids know exactly where Mimi’s classroom is and have fun walking through the school.

Abbie and Carter had a great time in Mimi’s room as usual.  She has buckets of markers and crayons and loads of paper, what’s not to like!  The kids played a while and then Bebe arrived and we all headed to the cafeteria.

(Carter just adores his Mimi!  He is always right by her side.  He frequently says he would rather live with Mimi.  Stephen and I jokingly tell him he is more than welcome to. Ha!)
Abbie was really nervous as we walked in to the cafeteria.  She even made Bebe carry her!  I was shocked by her reaction.  I thought she would love it, but I think it was a little overwhelming.  Hopefully the first day of school goes a little better.  Eventually everyone sat down and we ate our lunch.

(Carter’s shirt is soaked!  He has a nervous habit of chewing on his shirts.  So annoying!  It is as bad as a teething baby!  Chewing his shirt has seemed to replace his nail biting for now.)
After lunch we walked by the gym and watched the kids playing Alamo, basically just dodge ball with mats standing up to hide behind.  The PE coach asked Abbie if she wanted to play (she was significantly taller than some of the kindergartners!), but she didn’t want to.  We also went to visit a kindergarten room.  I think she felt a little more comfortable once she realized it looked a lot like her room in preschool, just bigger.
We said goodbye to Mimi and Bebe and then left for our long car ride home.  Fortunately, everyone took naps!  We had such a fun day and are sad we won’t get to visit Mimi at school anymore, but more excited to have her home to play with us more!