Adam went right on up, took his certificate and shook the Ambassadors hand.

Malcolm was more shy about going up, it didn’t help that he was the first one called so Randy went with him.

Malcolm’s class performed the cutest Pete the Cat performance. Malcolm had been practicing for weeks around the house but he was not in the mood to get up there.  He was so prepared but sometimes you’re just not feeling the big musical number, we get it Malcolm.

Next up was this smiling boy.  He was so excited. His class performed Ananzi the sea otter and Adam was a falcon.  He was great!  He loved it and was so excited to be up there. It’s hard to believe this was his last year at an Amerikids graduation.  He spent weeks making his wings and he was so proud of them! They looked beautiful!

Someone was happy the pressure of performing was over….

They got to dance to Adam’s favorite song!

And Adam even got to give the Ambassador a thank you gift.

After that is was time for a dance party, dinner and just like that another school year comes to a close.

Adam has been so lucky to spend 3 years here.  The teachers are amazing, the parent board is great (and i’m not just saying that because I was on the board) and the foundation that Adam has for school is unbeatable.  He is definitely ready for kindergarten!  He is curious, loves to learn and explore, is confident and already knows more about most things than I do.  I am so happy that Malcolm will still be there next year or I would be much more teary.  I can’t wait to see Adam grow in kindergarten and Malcolm grow and love pre-k as much as Adam did.  I hope these two always love school and learning!

We took Rover to a new Tapas restaurant in our neighborhood.

We showed him the new walking trail behind our building.

And of course we took him to our favorite place in our neighborhood, the Mind Museum!

Where we explored space and gravity,

Dinosaurs, Malcolm’s current favorite,

3D movies about taking care of our planet,

and X-ray machines.

After Mind Museum, we headed to Pinks for a yummy hot-dog.

The boys were very excited about the Easter bunny this year.  We of course left the bunny some cookies and carrots to snack on while he hid all of the eggs.  There were some Easter baskets hidden away to be brought by the Easter Bunny that Adam accidentally found so those were from mommy and daddy instead.

When I started thinking about Easter I decided to get the boys one Easter basket each with some fun candy,a few art supplies and a Mets hat of course since the season has started.  But, you know how these things are.  All of our super generous families sent tons of things, bathing suits, legos, books.  I had a car ramp from Malcolm’s birthday from Aunt Das and Uncle Nooj that finally got put together oh and we found a giant paper mache T-Rex. Who doens’t need that for Easter.

After all the new toys were adequately explored it was time for the big Easter egg hunt! The boys were super cute and helped each other find eggs. I always color code the eggs, it makes for a more fun and much more civil egg hunt i find. Both boys helped the other one find all their eggs.

Then on to some Easter treats!

For Easter we invite 30 of closest friends over for lunch.  All the kids had one last easter egg hunt and all the adults ate and drank the afternoon away.

Here are Adam’s eggs:

And here are Malcolm’s, minus a couple that he has insisted he holds for ‘just one minute’.

Sunday Fun Days have evolved from when we used to spend the day in a pub in London with our friends. But they are in no way any less fun! Here are some snippets from last Sunday.

Park playing

A side note on shadow making, this was the end of a great day but when Adam backed up into the lamp on the sidewalk his poor little leg got burned pretty badly.  Thankfully a week and a half later he’s almost all healed up.  I will spare you the pictures since it was not pretty!  But Adam didn’t let this ruin his great Sunday and to quote he only cried for 5 minutes (mommy was upset for much longer) and he is now obsessed with hearing stories of injuries that Randy and I got as children.  Randy’s baseball in the eye story is the current fave.  If you have any injuries stories pass them on and I’ll share them with Adam! 

Then is was time to line up and start the games!

After the games it was time for everyone to get medals!

Another great Family Fun Day in the books! Every time I go to these events I remember how much I love Amerikids and how lucky the boys are to get to go to school there. 

Randy travels a bit for work.  And while he works a lot I love seeing his pictures when he returns because he always squeezes in some time to see the beauty of the places he’s visiting.  I snuck a few of the best off his phone to share.  The best part about Randy is that he completely appreciates how lucky he is to see this beautiful places so I can’t even hold it against  him that this is where he’s been the past six moths for work….

I know i’m going to get in trouble for sharing this one, but it may be my favorite Randy picture of all times!

Just kidding, we headed out to board our plane…

Ha, just kidding again. Although we had no idea what to expect so it was a relief that our plane was decent sized. It also left on time *a rarity in Manila.

When we arrived we had this beautiful view.

And private Jeepneys to take us all around. The island has only the resort and the resort has over 10 different little villages modeled after different countries. Our first stop, the Greek Village of course.

Oh this Greek meal, it was the best Greek meal I’ve had in the Philippines and I’m pretty sad I can’t have it every day.

Don’t mind Malcolm’s I’m ready for a nap face, he was enjoying himself I promise!

After lunch some of us went to the Spa, some of went to the beach and some of us napped.  I’ll let you figure out who did what.

We took the kids to dinner and then left them to have a sleepover (with nannies of course) and went to a grown up dinner that didn’t start until 8 o’clock!

The next day was a little rainy.  Luckily all our friends were around to keep us busy and there’s always swimming in the hot tub. Never gets old.

The best part about the hotel was a dinner with characters. Poor Malcolm’s seat was right where all the characters came up.  Every one of them came up behind Malcolm and he made this face every time. It was hysterical, mostly because it ended with him smiling and not crying once he realized who it was.

I have no idea who Duffy is, but the boys were excited to see him.

We knew this one!

Minnie was the surprise hit of the night. She was funny and spunky and the boys loved her.

And the main attraction. We weren’t allowed to touch Mickey though. I’m guessing that maybe his head fell off at some point and traumatized some children, so we dutifully obeyed the no touching rule. I didn’t want to traumatize my children with a rolling Mickey head.

The dinner was a buffet and definitely not the main attraction but seeing how excited Adam and Malcolm were made it all worth it!

The next morning we had some time before we headed back to Kate’s house. First up, breakfast -Mickey style.  Mickey coffee, Mickey waffles, Mickey everything!

After a yummy breakfast we headed outside to explore the hotel. The hit of the hotel was this maze. The boys spent over an hour walking though this maze.  If we ever have a yard I may need to grow one of these.

After our maze adventure we walked along the water for a while. It was so nice to be outside and thankfully George lent us some hats cause it was chilly!

Independent boy.