After Rylee's concert as we were leaving Principal Doni Davis stopped us to ask Kenedy if she was coming to the school on Friday for the Senior walk. I was a little confused and asked her what she was talking about and Doni said they are having the Meridian High Seniors come to the school in their cap and gowns to walk through the halls with the kids lined up to watch. I have seen pictures and videos of places doing this and always thought it was so cool and wished they did something like it for our kids. I was so excited and asked if I could come and watch which Doni of course said yes to. So Friday morning Ashleigh and Andrew Brown, Mom and I went to Chaparral Elementary to wait for the Senior Walk. I was so excited.
We got to the school pretty early because I was paranoid about missing it and we sat in the car and visited for a little bit. We saw Rylee coming in from Recess and I rolled down the window and called out her name so we could wave to her. She was super embarrassed and tried to ignore us but then she kept peeking out of her classroom to see if we were still there, it was pretty funny.
Kenedy sent me a text letting me know she was on her way to the school so we went inside and sat in the hallway to wait. Mr Thornburg, Rylee's teacher, saw us so he sent Rylee out to come and see us. Again with the embarrassment from her. She said a quick hi and then scuttled back to her classroom.
The graduates finally arrived and the teachers had their kids line the hallway. The music started playing the the Seniors started to walk in. The elementary kids cheered and clapped and high fives the Seniors as they came walking through, it was pretty cute. The Seniors came in kind of clumpy and it was hard to take good pictures and video because some of them were hard to see, I told Doni that next year they needed to come in one at a time and spaced more apart. Other then that it was pretty great!
Once they were done the kids went back to class and we found Kenedy, she wanted to get a picture with Rylee and then go to her third grade classroom to see them.
Rylee reluctantly came out to pose for a picture and she did smile which was good of her.
This past semester Kenedy took an Education Assistant class, which had her in a third grade classroom at Chaparral assisting every other day. She wanted to stop in to get a picture with her class and it was pretty cute hearing them call out her name so excited to see her when she walked in. She got a lot of hugs and congratulations from her third graders.
