Graduation Day!

Just looking through the pictures from Bradley's graduation makes me all emotional! I cannot believe how fast he is growing up.
He really enjoyed his time at preschool. It was such an emotional thing for me when he started. I was not expecting him to go from being at home all day with me to spending all day - 8:30 to 3:30 - with his teachers.
I think it was so good for him though. He had great teachers who were so willing to work with him. He was way far ahead of all the other kids so they had to modify some of their lesson plans and everything, but they did a great job of not making him not feel left out. In fact, they even had him switch which group he was in so he could help some of the younger kids progress. He loved that.
Ok, so I have a gazillion pictures from this event. For some reason they wouldn't let us hold the graduation at the school so we had it at a pizza place. All the boys enjoyed pretending to play the video games. Sorry, the lighting is terrible, but oh well!
The theme was obviously Hawaiian. Connor enjoyed dressing up.
Halley got a little bored waiting for our pizza and for the program to start!

The kids lined up outside and then "walked" to the classic graduation song. It was cute to see all their smiling faces.After they got up on their stage they were supposed to perform a little Hawaiian hula thing, but most of the kids got really shy and wouldn't do anything.
Bradley was all set to go when the music started, but then he realized no one else was doing anything so he got super shy.

Then they passed out the diplomas. Bradley also got a special acheivement award for being such a good reader. We are so proud of him. His teachers kept telling us that they have never seen anyone be able to read like him at such a young age.Here is a cute picture of Bradley and one of his best friends, Leilani. She invited him to her birthday party, and he instantly thought she was cooler than all the other kids!
And here are Bradley's wonderful teachers! Miss Teresa, Miss Sonja and Miss Luci all took such good care of him. Thank goodness for wonderful people who are willing to invest so much time and love into education for children! We will truly miss them!