Elegance Party

On Thursday, Janet (my brother-in-law's wife) invited me and Sue to watch an "Elegance Party" at her daughter Ashley's school. This is probably the one time I lucked out to be in night school. I was able to attend early afternoon before class. It was a cute performance of kindergarteners who had been learning manners and etiquette and were showing them off.

The kids dressed up nicely in pretty dresses, skirts, slacks and shirts. Some dressed fancier than others, one girl looked like she was going to prom and one boy was wearing a full suit and tie.

The class waiting to walk in. Ashley is in the pink floral dress smiling

First they all lined up and read a poem

The table was all set out with named place mats and flowers

Each child had a flower to give to their parents

After reading their poems, the children went to the back of the class to hand their flowers to their parents. Ashley said to Janet: "I love you mom, but I'm giving my flower to Auntie Chloe" - that made me laugh! I took the flower and gave it to Sue on the way home. (It was an artificial flower).

After handing out their flowers, the kids paired up and stood in a line. One by one each couple was introduced by their teacher, "presenting Ashley Kirk, escorted by Corben Dow". The girls held the arms of the boys and the boys walked them over to their seat, pulled out their chair, then seated themselves. It was very cute to see 6 year olds do that! Some boys made more of an effort than others, I guess that starts young.

With that, the teachers handed out party food to the children and the parents were allowed to spend some time with them. At that point Sue and I decided to leave after saying hi again to Ashley.

On the way out of school I stopped in my tracks when I saw this cute little fella:

He's a Yellow Bellied Slider just like Orion! He looked directly at me, it made my heart melt

But he was a lot bigger than Orion! I would guess a good 6 inches. He also needed more water

It was sweet to get to see Ashley and her Kindergarten class