Pre-K Promotion

Madeline had her Pre-K promotion last week and I have to share some of the photos and videos because it was the cutest thing ever.  

It was a rough start with schools when we first moved to Austin. We had them in a daycare up in North Austin and after a few weeks, we realized it was a horrible fit. Madeline was screaming and crying everyday when we dropped her off (which is so unlike her!) and there was a lot of turnover even in the few weeks that we were there. We had no back-up plan, but decided to put in our notice at the daycare anyway. We were frantically looking for daycares or pre-schools and kept striking out. One night, we randomly discovered St. Martin's Lutheran and called the next morning. They had a spot for both Madeline and Luke (which can be hard to find!) so we went down that afternoon for a tour. We immediately loved it and enrolled them even though it was a long, traffic-y drive from our apartment. Shortly after, George got a new job downtown and we decided to move downtown, just a few minutes from the school. It all felt so stressful and chaotic at the time, yet it all worked out so well and we are so so sooooo thankful that we made that series of decisions. 

One of the things we love about St Martin's is that it is set-up as a preschool rather than just childcare. They have a really good curriculum, we're constantly shocked at the things they know. They have "specials" throughout the week (library, music, art,  gym, science, sign language, Spanish). The gym teacher has been teaching them bones in the body and Madeline legitimately knows more bones than I do! Both kids love their teachers and have made lot of little friends. 

And another one of her practicing one of the songs with George...