Levi's Elementary Graduation

 Today was the boy's last day of school but on Wednesday night Levi had his elementary graduation.  Yes, our oldest son is now entering Junior High.  He will be going into 7th grade which means he is more than half way through his public education experience. 

We are so proud of him.  He will be going to an advanced math class next year.  He was also invited to a gifted camp program, this summer, that pulls the best of the best students from 27 different elementary school in the area.  There are only 30 people in the program he was asked to attend (computer programming).  I still can't believe I gave birth to this smartie pants!

 Here Levi is as he is leading the way to the gymnasium at TH Bell (where he will be attending Junior High next year) before the ceremony. 

 Getting his "diploma."

 They were asked to help with putting up the chairs after the ceremony.  So I had to stage something, of course with our Maddie.  I got the cutest picture of her and Baby Boy.  She saw him, had to hold him of course, and then kissed him...which lead to an adorable lipstick mark on his big forehead!

 (Justin, Dylan, Quincy, and Levi)

 During the ceremony Mr. Dyer spoke of how he wears his "Joe badge" with honor.  I'm so sad I didn't get the whole "Joe Squad" in a picture before every one left but this will have to do.  Mr. Dyer was Levi's teacher and as Levi says, he is the best teacher Levi has ever had.  We have moved around a lot and have been blessed with great teachers but I am telling you that Mr. Dyer is exceptional.  He really is.  Always so positive with the children he teaches and can still play around.  

I guess one day when Levi turned in an assignment, he turned in his paper with "Joe" as the author.  Mr. Dyer doesn't have a Joe in his class so everyone thought this was funny, of course.  When he called who ever turned in the assignment out on this, Mr. Dyer told them that he wouldn't know who "Joe" was without his name on it.  So the next time he turned in an assignment he put Joe on there again but with "Levi" next to it.  However, "Levi" was written very small.  So small that it was hard to read.  That got more laughs, of course.  This lead to him turning in assignments with the name of "Joe Doughnut."  Soon many other classmate caught on which lead to nick names of Joe Juice, Joe Bacon, Joe Squiggle, etc..  Poor Mr. Dyer got the nickname "Joe It."  I guess because in his family he is known as Uncle It.  

Levi informed me the other day that I was Joe Mamma.  Not bad, son,  Not bad.

After I took all these pictures of Levi a certain little boy got sad...so we will end this post on a selfie that made little Hyrum happy!