Once in a happy-blue moon the super-mom cape comes out...

I would just like to say that I pulled out the end of preschool with my super-mom cape ON. The fact that it only made a very few appearances this year seeing as how I juggled grad school and family for the first half of the year matters not. It came out when it mattered and that happened to be Summer Birthday Day at school. Jane Bradley's birthday is in July, so she was one of the lucky ones who were given the opportunity to have a mock-celebration of the real thing with her friends the last week of school. 

She wants to have a "happy blue" (her favorite, bright blue color) and zebra birthday party this summer, and her pretend school birthday needed to match. So after she went to bed the night before... I whipped up these bad boys (enter super-mom cape): 

The final version added pastel flowery sprinkles, but I let her put those on in the last minute before we left for school. 

Jane Bradley put on her happy blue dress and if you look closely, you will notice that she appropriately paired it with blue and zebra-striped flip flops so as to match her cupcakes.... Everyone who has known me for a while is smiling because, I know what you're thinking... Who knows where she gets this stuff ?

Part of having a birthday is holding the flag in at music time

There was more than one birthday so they shared the flag

I loved how this morning showed the polar opposite personalities that JB and B have. Beckham came with me to their music time, and the whole time he stood in front of all 50+ preschoolers and sang and clapped and danced. Then when they circled up, he took his self-designated spot in the center of the circle. JB would not have agreed to stand in the center of the circle and have a bunch of kids older than her that she didn't know stare at her if I promised her an entire Toys-R-Us. She preferred a much smaller group to the standing in front of a crowd. Beckham thought the celebration was for him, and JB would have hidden under my skirt at his age. It's so sweet to see how she's gained so much confidence in the last couple of years.

This picture doesn't even begin to do it justice...

He was waiting for the pledge of allegiance to be over before he began to
dance, sing, and entertain his audience.

 Jane Bradley's class invited Beckham back to their room to join them for a cupcake. He was all over it. 

And it was all over him :)