Over the last week or so we’ve been getting all our end of the year gifts in order which took a lot longer than expected and tried to work them all in between deadlines. Here’s just a few things we did to complete the school year:

We have a lot of fun summer things planned like teaching the the Woog to sew, tie-dye, etc. and we’re bringing Woogie Wednesdays back in full force so be on the lookout for that. For me, I’ll be using my summertime to work on a few projects that have been on my list to start and complete for some time now. They’re going to be good, I promise

Today’s the day!! When I got up this morning I saw that my husband had tweeted some of the lyrics to Martina McBride’s “In My Daughter’s Eyes.” Which was so not cool – trying to make me cry. If you haven’t heard it you can here. Prepare for boo-hooing! I kept it together though. She was raring to go this morning and couldn’t wait to leave wearing her cute little uniform.

I made her note and packed her lunch (today’s ice cream day!):

And off we went to school. Once we turned down the Kindergarten hall, she started getting apprehensive. When we left she started crying and had to leave her that way but we’ve already heard that the tears dried up when we left. I didn’t cry a bit! She’s been too excited for me to be sad.

And here’s a shot that every parent can get on the new day of school:

Bright white new shoes! Today is the last day they will ever be clean To celebrate tonight, we’re going to the Rainforest Cafe (her choice)! Thanks for all the well wishes via comments, facebook & twitter. I appreciate it!!

One last piece of art to wrap up the countdown. This has been in my sketchbook for a while and thought it was a perfect piece for this little series.

The Woog’s allergies finally caught up with her today so she’s been resting all afternoon so I decided to do a quick piece on my own.

Tomorrow: Art for 1 day to go!

Knowing my work, you should have expected an alphabet so that’s what we did today. The Woog wrote her alphabet and I used her letters in this design.

Tomorrow: Art for 2 days to go!

Picked some veggies in our garden today and decided to make a school picture of them all. I let the Woog draw her’s first and decided who would be in her class. Then I did mine real quick (but didn’t name them like she did).

Tomorrow: Art for 3 days to go!

Didn’t get a chance to post things yesterday but we did finger print art. This is apparently what we will all look like on the first day of school (art directed completely by the Woog).

Tomorrow: Art for 4 days to go!

Decided to do some art on the chalkboard today. I drew the bus and she added “her friends” in the windows and colored the bus some.

While I was getting this post together, I heard her in the kitchen yell “Daddy, come look at my bus, it’s better than Mommy’s!” So you be the judge (I think it is better).

Tomorrow: Art for 5 days to go!

Today we visited my MIL and she gave the Woog a bag a school supplies so the entire way home she drew pictures. When I opened the car door, about 30 separate pictures she had drawn in a 1 hour period fell out. She cracked herself up while drawing them all. Most were portraits and the one she did of her daddy as a duck chicken was hilarious. It’s isn’t school themed but made with brand new school supplies so I guess that counts. You can see her cut drawing here.

Since we were out and about most of the day so I had to squeeze in this little collage while sitting with my grandmother a bit with nothing more than a pen, glue stick and Walgreen’s school supply ad.

No bad for a quick 10 minute collage! I’m hoping tomorrow we have more time to make a bigger project together. She’s had something in mind all along to make!!

Tomorrow: Art for 6 days to go!