The Graduate

Aden graduated from 4-year-old Montessori kindergarten on Thursday. I'm so proud of him. His class did a little recital of the things they learned this year: Songs using sign language…Spanish colors and numbers…The Pledge of Allegiance…My Country 'Tis of Thee…reciting all the American Presidents…the school Alma Mata. Aden and some of the other children had parts to learn and tell us about their day. I can't believe he will be starting regular kindergarten in the fall.


On Friday, Aden lost his first tooth at daycare. He was full of excitement and questions about the tooth fairy when we picked him up – including the question was the tooth fairy real? Boy, kids are too smart for their own good sometimes. There's hardly any magic and innocence as part of childhood anymore. He was skeptical the tooth fairy would actually find the tooth, but that didn't seem to matter by Saturday morning when he found the dollar that was left under the pillow. I remember getting a quarter a tooth as a kid, but then again gas was about 61 cents a gallon at the time.