Photo-A-Day #3357
Today was Eva’s graduation from Kindergarten. We could not be any more prouder of what she has done this past year in school. She had exemplary marks from her teacher and nothing but praise from all of the staff at the school. I don’t think that we can express to her how proud we are when we hear things about her from her teachers.
We got to the school early so that we could get a seat. I hate saving seats, it is such an awkward position to be in. For one thing you are sitting there with a whole empty pew and people keep coming up to ask if the seats are taken and they clearly are taken but still people ask. Then I just get anxious while I wait for everyone else to arrive. Listening to people one row behind me bitching and moaning that they weren’t closer. I’m not meant for saving seats but the curse of always being early is that you are the one who saves seats. I think for Eva’s 8th Grade graduation I’m just going to find a seat in the back with a 5000X Zoom lens.
But the graduation ceremony itself was very nice. Eva was up there smiling from ear to ear. She was one of the only kids who smiled the entire time. And that was through her having a huge range of emotions over the end of the year. While she was excited for the Summer she was also sad to leave her friends. She is such a mature kid.
After the graduation we went across the street for photos and then off to House of Fortune to celebrate Eva’s graduation. We had Mom, Dad, and Shelby and cousin Dylan. Auntie Tara was teaching a class so she caught up later when we were leaving.
When we arrived at House of Fortune, Eva was swinging her arms around as little kids often do when they are waiting around. Well, one of her hands connected with Andrew’s eye and scratched his cornea. We didn’t learn about that until later. He wasn’t quite right and he was cried out in pain on the way home a few times and kept touching his eye. Allison called the doctor’s office and was directed to the emergency room. And her suspicion was right, Andrew had a scratched cornea. Eva felt awful about it. Allison took Andrew to the ER and he was a champ while he was there. I think he even scammed two lollipops. Then he had this little eye patch that lasted about 10 minutes.
He has to have drops in his eyes a few times a day but he handled it pretty well overall. He’s a rough and tumble boy so he’s probably gonna have a few more of these visits in his lifetime despite all we do to keep him safe.