Shelly's Graduation

It was long...but it was nice. She was really cute. All the kids from all the classes all wore hats with different animals on them. Carly wore a chicken hat and Shelly had a frog hat. Then, as a whole, the group sang "old mcdonald" had a farm and when their animal had their turn, they all stood up and sang.

Then, each graduating kid from developmental kindergarten got a memory book they had made and a little diploma saying they were now ready for actual kindergarten. I couldn't believe how different shelly looked in the picture from the first day of DK to how she looks now..she really has grown a lot..makes me sad in that sappy dad way, but proud in that she really is becoming a good kid.

The awkward part about the whole thing is that it was just shan and i and the girls there. Which, actually was cool...no problems..HOWEVER, we know a lot of the parents and other people around at this thing and not everyone realizes we are divorced. SOOOOO...there were several conversations that started like this "josh, i haven't seen you around the neighborhood lately..."...or in some form of fashion similar thereto. The best was from one of my other neighbors who moved back into the rear of the sub.."josh, so tell me, is that your new Z350 truck i always see in the driveway?" lol..."um, nooooo...that's my ex wives boyfriends i'm guessing." The look on his face was priceless..i saw him walk over to his wife and tell her as they had just been talking to me and shan and she literally rubberbanded her neck back so quick to see me she tripped over a lawnchair and almost hit the ground.

The moral of the story here is i'm very fortunate that shan and i can do these kind of things together because we BOTH have the girls best interests at heart. We put them first, well knowing that it will create awkward moments at one point or another for both of us with other people. I don't think all divorces are like that, and i'm glad the girls can still share us as parents in that way. I think it would be hard for kids to have parents that couldn't take in their activities together as well as shan and i do.

Here's some pics from the event...