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| Meredith joined the lower elementary choir this year and even sang a little solo at their end of year concert. What a brave kid as this is definitely a stretch for her. |
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| Parents were invited to watch the last ballet class of the year. It was so fun to see Anna and her ballerina friends stretching, toe-pointing, jumping and spinning! |
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| I love, love, love attending our school's graduation each year as a Board member. I always get a little teary-eyed but this year took the cake. The keynote speaker is a well-regarded local business person whose youngest daughter also graduated. He has a very deep and heartfelt connection to our school and it showed in his heartfelt speech. He had most of us in tears when he read a poem called The Children's Hour (below). Amazing, amazing graduation and the night each year when I tell myself that we have to stay in Abu Dhabi long enough for our kids to graduate from here, too. (Don't worry, Mom & Dad, I don't let that fleeting thought stay long in my head!). |
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| Nope, Anna doesn't wear glasses now. She just used her gift card from Claire's to buy some fashion glasses. She had a lot of fun wearing them to school and making all her friends think that she wears glasses now. |
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| Middle school end of year choir concert. These kids did great! The 6th & 7th grade girls are singing a song from the movie Free Willy (hence the movie scene). They were wonderful. |
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| After the middle school choir concert. These two lovely ladies both had solos in the performance. Regan did amazing and is still shaking from the stress of it all. So proud of these kids! |
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| Upper elementary choir performance |
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| Jane and her choir buddies |
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| Regan's dance recital |
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| She was also selected to do a dance duet and did an amazing job! |
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| Finale - she is holding up the Childhood sign |
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| All made-up with Maya and Sophia, her dance buddies |
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| Wacky Wednesday for Jane at school (pjs, tutu, vampire cape and braids, of course!) |
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| Good-bye Ms. Lucy - Jane had a great 4th grade year! Maybe Meredith will have you next year for 3rd grade! |
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| Meredith with Mrs. Elizabeth who is an amazing teacher! |
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| Anna had the benefit of being nurtured by Mrs. Self this year! |
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| Regan received the Life Learner award for 6th grade - yay, Regan! |
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| Daniela and Regan and their awards (Daniela received the citizenship award). |
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| Regan has really gotten into her dance and signed up for the middle school talent show. She and two friend choreographed a fun dance. There were only a few 6th graders in the show as 7th & 8th graders can be scary! |
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| Anna in her kindergarten class end of year "move up" celebration |
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| Last day of school was a 1/2 day so off to the water park a bunch of us went. Here are Meredith and Anna enjoying the fun afternoon. |
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| Lots of newbies are scared off by the heat in June but not us - having a great time in the 105-ish degree temperature (and thank goodness for water chillers in the pools!). |
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| Photo of the moms, too! |
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| #1 Dad. Happy Father's Day, Jake! |
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| Trampoline park! Here goes Regan off the platform. |
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| Jane, too! |
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| Anna bouncing |
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| Jane ran all the way up the slanted wall |
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| Regan, Jane, Anna and Jane's friend Ameera (Meredith was at a beach club with a friend). |
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| Now off to the cable climb - obstacle course way up high |
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| Jane's not nervous any more (it was *scary* the first time!). |
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| Regan feels more comfortable this time, too. |
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| They did it! This was Ameera's first time and she was *really* scared at first. But that brave kid overcame her fear, finished the course and promptly did it again. Brave girls! |
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| The family that gets shots together, gets to travel to Kenya together. Poor kids (and me!) getting yellow fever shots in preparation for our safari trip in August. |
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| Yay for Regan - made High (!) Honor roll for the 2nd semester, too. |
Poem read at the high school graduation:
The Children's Hour
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.
I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and then a silence:
Yet I know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall!
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!
They climb up into my turret
O'er the arms and back of my chair;
If I try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!
Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!
I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away! 
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