Amy Russo (Ben's mom) made the invitations. She is SO creative and talented!
Amy also did all the decorations. Thanks so much, Amy, for all your help!
We framed all of Katie's school pictures and made a slide show out of all the various snapshots taken of her at school over the past five years. Everyone loved it!
Lots of yummy food! Notice the "Signing Time" cards hanging from the ceiling that Amy also made!
A teacher at Katie's school made the delicious cake. She did a great job in matching the invitation!
Katie and her amazing developmental pediatrician, Dr. Wiley
Katie and her paraprofessional, Patty. The love there is pretty obvious, don't you think?
Katie enjoying her videos with Ms. Wanda (her interpreter) and Ms. Patty (her para)
Below is the slide show of all her various pics from school over the years. It's kind of long (almost 12 minutes), but it's really fun to see how Katie has changed and progressed over the years.
Hard to believe tomorrow is the last day of school! We'll be moving to a new school building and all new people (except Katie's interpreter, who will move with her) for second grade. I'm going to be sad tomorrow to leave our current school. Everyone is like family to us there. What an amazing bunch of people we've been blessed with the past five years!
5 comments:
What a beautiful celebration of such an important milestone! It makes me so happy to know you and Katie have had the support and community of such wonderful people over the years. The open house looks absolutely lovely and a perfect way to celebrate Miss Katie and her supporters along the way! Happy Summer!
Thank you for all your kind words. I really enjoyed working on your party and so honored you asked me. Looks like everyone had a good time. And I'm impressed Dr Wiley came!
fantastic day and how brilliant was Ben's mum at making the invite, also impressive matching cake what lovely teachers you have :D where have those 5 years gone... life's too fast !!!!
What a great way to celebrate Katie and all the people in her life!
What a wonderful celebration! So many people who support and love your sweet Katie.
The montage you put together was great, Leslie! I thorougly enjoyed watching Katie grow and change right before my eyes.
Amy did a fabulous job on the invitations and decorations... such talent!
I cannot imagine the mix of emotions as you close the door on one school chapter and open another this fall.
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