Preschool Graduate!

My baby is growing up. I can not believe she will be 5 in about 2 months and will be starting kindergarten. Let me say it again, my BABY is growing up!

Tonight she graduated from her preschool. I loved the program we did. We started off with 6 families and we all took 2 week turns teaching the kiddos. We ended with 4 families because 2 moved away. Care Bear loved going to school, especially Tuesdays which were show and tell days. She has been the only girl for the last few weeks and she was a little diva compared to those boys!

In the last 9 months, Care Bear has learned to recognize most of her ABC's, she can recite the Pledge of Allegiance, she can count to 30 minus #15 for some reason, she can count back words from 10 on down, she can write her own name, she knows the days of the week, and she can recognize numbers 1-10.

Last week her teacher Carey asked all the kids what they wanted to be when they grow up. All 3 boys chose fire men and Miss Care Bear said she wants to be Mary Santiago. Who??? It is a character played by Selina Gomez in the movie "Another Cinderella Story". Care Bear watches this movie at least once a day! She tries to do the dance moves and knows all the songs. I laughed so hard when Carey told me this. Oh yeah, Care Bear also said she wants to build houses. Figure that one out! I guess I should know by now that nothing Miss Care Bear says or does should surprise me! The girl was popping wheelies on her 2 wheeler the other day and trying to see how long she could go with no hands. Thank goodness only a couple of seconds! Let me remind you, she is still 4 years old!!!

This is one of the cupcakes I made for our graduation party. I think they turned out so cute! The hat is a flattened Starburst sitting on a giant gumdrop. The tassel is a strip from a fruit roll up cut with scissors.