Last Day of School...

How can it be that the girls are done with their first year of school already?

Wasn't I just taking pictures of them in their new orange 'Comets' T-shirts that all the children in the 3-year-old class wore for their first day?

Didn't I just receive a phone call from Cathy, the site coordinator, while trying to get my hair cut on their second day of school to tell me that they were both still crying 20 minutes after drop-off?

You mean to say that it has been 8 1/2 months since they had a hard time separating from me to go to school?

Has it really been over 5 months since they were dressed up as angels for the Christmas program and Katy announced "One night, shepherds were watching their sheep!"?

And didn't we just celebrate pajama day? and silly socks day? and wild west day?

Their very first field trip was almost a whole month ago? Are you sure?!?

Where does the time go? Before I know it I'll be writing that I can't believe they're graduating from Kindergarten, and then Elementary School... As a wise person once recorded on their blog "the days can drag on for eternity, but the months fly by." Truer words have not been spoken.

We received a DVD with a slide show filled with pictures taken over the past year by Cathy (the site coordinator for the YMCA preschool) today. I'd forgotten that they took pictures of the girls on their first day of school next to a picture of a tree with measuring marks on the trunk, and must have taken them again a few days ago next to the same tree. Olivia and Katy have both grown nearly 3 1/2 inches this year! I knew they had gotten bigger, but seeing the two pictures side by side was just so neat. I'm trying to figure out how to get individual photos off of the disk, and will post them once I've got it figured out.

And now I need to figure out how to fill the next three months until school starts again...