Will's team is called Impact - though everyone usually just calls them the yellow team. Will is sitting on the bench, farthest kid to the right. Will's classmate, Maeve, is not the little girl sitting next to him, but the next one over with the curly red hair. They spent a lot of time holding hands before & after practice. Will's friend from church, Jaret, is on the ground all the way to the left. They had fun being on the same team. Will got to wear the #4 jersey just like he did in tee-ball. Maybe we'll try to stick with it. :)
In June and July, Will decided to try tee ball. At first he just sat down and played in the dirt, totally ignoring what was going on around him. Here he is before his very first game. I call this his "game face":
Here's his official picture. His hat and shirt were humongous on him,
but I still think he looks pretty cute!
The Team:
John spent most of his time either crying because we wouldn't let him go out and play with the big kids, or hanging out under the bleachers:
After a while, Will got the hang of what was going on and really got into it. These pictures are from one of his last games. Here he is running after a ground ball:
Up at bat with his favorite bat - the blue one. They were all the same but he liked the blue one the best and always tried to use that one.
Running to first:
Our star:
In the beginning, we thought tee ball was going to end up being a bust, but Will now says it's his favorite thing. We're even thinking of trying out soccer in the fall!
We just can't believe it, but Will graduated from preschool on Friday. He has loved every day of preschool - he even cries when a holiday comes on a school day and he doesn't get to go! He had a really great year. Here he is showing off his cubby on the first day of school and then again on the last day of school just after graduation:
Here he is with his teachers Miss Nancy (left) and Miss Brittany (right). They were so fantastic with Will this year! I feel like either one of them could steal him and pretend to be his mom and nobody would know, they look so much like him.
Here's Will showing off some of the sneakers that he and his classmates sold to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Will sold all of his in one night to our friends in Life Group. As people walked in the door he used his great sales pitch, "Do you have any money?"
The Graduation Song:
As they called the kids names, they walked across the stage to high-five Miss Brittany and then shake hands with Miss Nancy and receive their diplomas. I just taped the last couple of kids since Will was last in line. Will, always a crowd favorite, doesn't disappoint.
Here's Will at the reception afterward with his BFF from the year, Katelyn. Katelyn was all decked out in Hello Kitty! from head to toe. Will insists that he's going to marry her, but they will be going to different schools for Kindergarten, so it will be a bit of a long distance relationship.
We are all so excited about Kindergarten in the Henley house, but it will be hard to say goodbye to Woodland Baptist Preschool. It was really, really, really great for Will. He learned a ton, made lots of friends, and really matured from practically a toddler to a big kid. Will wanted preschool to just keep going all summer until it's time for Kindergarten to start!
