First and Last

For comparison sake, here are pics from the first day of school and the last:

August 31, 2010:

May 26, 2011

If you look at the door behind them, you can see that it looks like they've each grown about 1.5 inches each this school year. (*sniff sniff* my babies are growing up!)

Pre-K graduation and end of school

Thursday was the boys' last day of school, and pre-k graduation for William! It's crazy to think that he'll be in Kindergarten next year...

They both had a great year, and we LOVED their teachers.

Singing for the end of the year program. I didn't get a lot of great pics because William was in the 2nd row, so he was frequently blocked...

William and his teachers, Mrs. Beth and Mrs. Beverly

a Pre-K graduate!

Hudson and his teachers, Mrs Tammy and Mrs. Miken

Preschool

Hudson's class doesn't have a "program" per-se, but they did have observation day today at music and spanish class. It was a.d.o.r.a.b.l.e. 

Here is some video footage of music class:

And here's a sample of Spanish class:

Fun with ONE

I have never had a whole lot of concentrated time with just Hudson, so that is the one nice thing about William jet-setting across the Atlantic. Dave was in Montreal when William left on Thursday, and the rest of the day and all day Friday Hudson kept saying "just mommy and Hudson. just us." Once Dave got back, he changed it to "just mommy and daddy and Hudson. just us." He thoroughly enjoying getting all this 2-on-1 attention!

On Saturday, we took Hudson to the new Legoland Discovery Center near here. It was a blast!!

building a race car:

 racing it:

 this was a fun ride. You peddle really fast and it makes the car go up really high. Hudson was too short to reach the pedals, so I had to really pedal to get us up there!

 Hudson LOVED it!

 this was actually the "baby" area with Duplos, but he loved it anyway:

 They have a "miniland" which has all the major highlights of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex made out of legos. It was pretty awesome.

Rangers Stadium:

 Hudson wanted me to take this for Papa:

 DFW airport: international terminal:

 Of course, Cowboys Stadium:

 This was a shooting ride, and you have to use these laser guns to shoot the targets on the Lego bad guys:

 the 4D movie, which was pretty fun (but lame story-line):

 This is what he thought of the experience:

It was a fun fun day with our little guy! Who says William gets to have all the fun???

Goodbye!

This is a few days late, but William left for London, England last Thursday. My parents decided to take him to visit Keira, and how could we deny him/them??

at the airport

saying goodbye to my baby!

It was hard to say goodbye to him, but I knew he was going to be in good hands for the next 9 days. Plus, Hudson has been excited to have me (during the day) and daddy all to himself.