winding down.

avery and nola (and zane too) have just 2 more days of school for the year. it's a big year end too. nola's leaving adventures and is off to kindergarten in the fall. avery's first year of elementary school is coming to a close. and we're all a little emotional about it.

on tuesday, parents were invited to avery's class for an author's celebration. we got to see all the hard work they've done and the morning ended with a video compilation her teacher made of the kids throughout the year. i kept myself busy during the video because i knew i'd start crying if i really watched and listened to the sappy music that went along with it. i made it through fine, but then nola came up to me (she came along before i dropped her at preschool) sobbing. i think part of it was her sensitivity and feeling the close of things, and part was that she wants to be in avery's school SO BAD and didn't want to go back to preschool. either way, she and i were a tear-stained mess within minutes and avery was totally fine. (to be fair, her teacher also had red eyes and it just goes to show what an amazing year it's been for this class and what a truly wonderful teacher she is).

nola has her graduation on friday night and luckily, if it's anything like avery's was last year, it's not very sentimental and they don't put too much effort into things :)

we have a couple of boxes from zane's classroom sitting on our dining room table right now, which is another sign that things are slowing down. we're hopeful beyond words that these boxes will not return to marlborough and that they can find a new home in a closer district!

one thing that isn't slowing down is this baby (still nickname-less, unless you count 'cupcake' or 'camel'-the first is nola's idea, the second, mine). on monday night i was lying in bed and felt the baby start kicking around a bit, though it felt a little stronger than usual. i lifted up my shirt, and soon i heard zane say "i saw that!" a few twitches were definitely seen. this morning, the baby was doing acrobatics again and i caught it on video, which the girls were thrilled to watch when they woke up. this little one definitely went from 0-60. (i was just saying at work on monday that i felt like i had started feeling the girls by this time and maybe this was just a lazy one ;))