Poker Hill Graduate

This girl is a graduate of Poker Hill School!  We can't even believe it.  It has been such an unbelievable place for her to grow as a little person.  Two years ago, she was a three-year old who had a reputation for being bossy at her daycare and whom we thought might have gotten our non-musical genes.  Now, she is a compassionate, social, musical, confident, inquisitive, independent person.  She marches to the beat of her own drum and I can thank Poker Hill for much of that.

Poker Hill doesn't believe in a formal graduation, but they do have an end of the year hike up the teepee and sing-a-long/ice cream social for the families.  It was so fun to see Cal show Hazen around and explain the "ins and outs" of Poker Hill to him.  We are so excited to have our next chapter there with him.

We aren't really sure what inspired her, maybe it was moving on from preschool or the hot weather, but the week after Poker Hill got out, Cal asked to get her hair chopped.  We decided this was a job for the professionals, so we brought her down to Bridge Street Hair, where one of my first biology students gave her a "bob".  

My end of the year was kind of crazy.  The weekend guests and traveling, combined with taking an online class, hosting the Mt. Mansfield Union High School "Ladies Luncheon" for ~50 colleagues, and the regular hustle of grading and wrapping things up at school made things rather hectic -hence the lack of blog posts for about six weeks.  When it was finally all over, on June 19th we celebrated at our friend's Marcia and Tim's house. 

  

Yeah Summer!