Jade's last day of preschool

Jade had her last day of preschool last week. She has loved it so much and it has been really good for her. She's always more talkative and engaged with us when she comes home from preschool. I'm so glad that she qualified for free preschool through the school district.

Here's a picture of her class. They sang three songs, The More We Get Together, Like A Butterfly, and some Freeze Dance song.
Jade with her teacher, Mrs. Porter (on the right) and Mrs. Turk, the teacher's assistant (up top).
This is Jade's aide, Ms. Cheryl. She would assist Jade throughout the day. Getting her on and off the bus,helping her with class projects, and helping her stay on task.
Afterward, we went to the park while Dan took a test. The girls had a great time, of course.

Then we went to Mall of America. Jade rode on the carousel with Daddy. :) I love her smile in this picture.

Playing with Grandma

Louann came for a visit. It was bitter-sweet though, Dan's maternal grandpa passed away, so she came for the funeral. It was very nice to have her play with the girls and have her here.

We have several friends here in Minnesota that work for General Mills, so we decided to run in the Run of the Mills 5K. I was expecting that Dan would be able to watch the girls while I ran, but he had an unexpected interview at a hospital in Vegas. So I took the girls in the double jogger. It was a bit worse than I thought it would be. There were many stops to put binkies back in mouths and at one point I took Chloe out and held her and pushed the stroller with the other hand. Really though, my time wasn't awful. Somewhere in the 42 minute range.
Jade ran in the kids race, the Cheerio Chase. She did really well, as in, she kept running to the end. She was running at a leisurely pace. I don't think she gets the idea that she wants to be first. It was so adorable though.