Graduation weekend!

 JACK JEDD, high school grad!!!

Graduation was at the Kohl Center on campus. a change of venue from Harry's graduation, that we all enjoyed.

Perhaps we should have gotten there earlier to sit a tad coser, but the view from the jumbotron was great!

Random shout ot to Madison public schools!! I bet those letters were a good investment since all 4 major high schools do back-to-back graduations in the same place the ame weekend.

We had plenty of time to wait and get bored despite our bad seats.

Minnie made rainbow loom bracelets with her fingers.

Jack! Graduating!!

We were so excited to spot him while the kids filed in

Socks and sandals

Officially official!

We took many configurations of pictures

And then! A special visitor surprised us at brunch

Brunch was lovely, BTW

We also celebrated on Friday night

And then Ben and Jack drove a carpool of speech kids to O'Hare at 3 am on Sunday so they could catch their flight to DC for SPEECH NATIONALS. Jack is currently living his best life with his speech friends and meting some other incoming Bradley speech freshmen-- he'll be home just in time for me and Dorothy to leave for dance nationals hashtag busy summer.

Minnie's take on the weekend:

Summer "break," end of school, DANCE, etc.

 Is summer break over yet? I might rehome the next person who says the word "snack." IT HAS BEEN ONE DAY of summer break, as of the time of this writing.

Minnie made a glue heavy collage AND did an entire workbook. WHAT NOW.

Jack is all packed up for his national speech trip (he leaves at the literal crack of dawn on Sunday and is gone for a week in DC)

Coop taught Minnie how to to tell time

Minnie had her first pizza night at the pool

Cooper had his last practice at Wisconsin Dive Club and will be diving with a new club and new coaches (same facility) starting next week (there has been some dramz).

Jack got to do his senior walk at Minnie's school (which was his elementary school from 4K to 5th grade).

4th grade teacher

4K teacher

kindergarten teacher

And then there was a massive thunderstorm/ tornado and the last day of school dismissal was delayed because everyone was sheltering in place, so Minnie did not get to leave the building to bubbles and. music and dancing, which is the usualy tradition. I wanted to bring her home with me when tornado sirens went off at the end of senior walk, but she didn't want to miss a minute of her last day, so the big buys and I had turkey sandwiches and watched the storm.

Dorothy had 7 friends ride the bus home with her to go to the pool, and, luckily, the clouds parted just in time, Phew!!

No pics of that, but I do have some epic first day/last day shots

And! Of course! DANCE RECITAL PICTURES YOU GUYS I MEAN.

Dress rehearsal:

THE BIG SHOW

You know what's awesome about living so close to school? Minnie's teacher was making farewell keychains for the class and taking pics for them with another teacher to help, and we saw it all unfolding on the way to the bus and wasted no time jumping in:

Also for real summer running is horrible