Kindergarten Graduation

Wow! Our little girl is growing up so fast! Faith graduated from Kindergarten yesterday. They had a very cute ceremony at the school, sang a bunch of songs and then got their diplomas. As much as we struggle sometimes with sending Faith to a different school than Anthony, I have to say they go above and beyond to make all of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH) kids feel just like the rest of the kids. There are 3 Kindergarten classes and around 7 or so DHH kids and they have them spread out across the three classes for the morning and then they have all 7 kids in a special DHH class for the afternoon. So, even though there are only 3 DHH kids in Faith's Kindergarten class out of around 25+ kids, all of the kids are taught to sign most of the songs they sing. It was so cute watching them sing and sign all their songs. I will have to upload one of the videos I took.

Here is Faith in the morning before her big day.  She looks so pretty!!  :)

I admit, I got a little teary eyed a couple of times during the ceremony.  They showed a video at the end with tons of still shots of all the kids from many activities throughout the year.  Watching it all go by again in a video was exactly how fast the whole year seemed to fly by.  And seeing the close up pictures of so many little kids with their big eyes and innocent faces made me think about time flying for everyone in that room.  I can just imagine seeing these same kids graduating from 6th grade, becoming teenagers and then graduating from high school.  I hope all of them have amazing lives ahead of them.  They are all on a journey of their own, but it's great that they have shared this part of their journeys together.