As of the moment that I’m sitting here typing, Hayley has two – TWO! – days of school left. I really can’t believe it.

It’s all just a bunch of passing time there now, because it’s not like they have anything left to learn that they have to cram into those last two days. If they don’t know enough now to go into grade one, they’re not going to get it in the final week.

So instead of busting their butts working, they’ve been having some serious fun. Today they had the school Play Day. I didn’t really know what to expect until I saw their school yard had a bunch of those bouncy house and slide things. *I* never had that!

When I picked Hayley up she looked like all the other kids coming out – happy but clearly exhausted. They had a DJ to do a dance party in the gym at various intervals for different grade levels. The Kindergarten classes went first, right at the start of the day and I wish I could have been a fly on the wall to see 40 five- and six-year-olds shaking it.

Then they spent the majority of the morning up until just past lunchtime outside, playing on the equipment, playing games like soccer and tug-of-war, and they had a hot dog lunch. After lunch, everyone went inside while the bouncy houses were taken down, the Kindergarten kids played in their own yard for awhile, and they wrapped it all up by offering more treats to them while they watched a movie in one of the two classrooms.

It must have been fun because Hayley sounded like she had been filmed and then someone sped that film up when she was talking about it. She also occasionally hit that high pitch that only girls are capable of hitting and only dogs can hear.

I wish I could have dropped in with my camera but there was no way I could have taken Breanna with me because she would have lost her mind, wanting to stay and play too.

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Tomorrow will be another good one for Hayley’s class. Her teacher had missed the first part of the school year and was only back on a part time basis in the new year for the first couple of months. As a result, she had missed a lot of the birthday celebrations – whenever it’s a student’s birthday they’re welcome to bring in anything but a full cake (they don’t want to have to deal with slicing). We sent TimBits with Hayley for her birthday back in September.

Since the teacher missed so many, not to mention all the summer birthdays that never get celebrated, she made tomorrow Birthday Party Day and they’re just going to celebrate and do fun activities all day long. She sent home a note asking parents to volunteer to send in anything from food to beverages, to party favors. Much to my shock, Hayley didn’t request cupcakes or cookies, she chose to bring in a fruit platter so we got two big containers of fresh fruit salad for her to take in tomorrow.

It should be an absolute blast.

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Friday is the last day. I have no idea what they’ll be doing but it’s probably going to be low-key and fun up until their year-end assembly in the gym with the principal.

All I know is between today’s Play Day and tomorrow’s Birthday Party Day, I’m seriously wishing that I was five years old again!