Farewell to La Petite

Last Friday was the last day of Gabby at La Petite Academy. This week she and Rebecca both go to Tri-City. After being told she would go to a different school and her sister would go to that school as well, Gabby was very excited about it.

Gabby started at La Petite in August 2009. She went half day for the first month and then full day after Grandma left. She was in early preschool class. Her teachers were Ms Brook and Ms Daisy. She liked them both. In the morning when Daddy dropped her at school Ms Brook sometimes was serving breakfast in another classroom with bigger kids. Gabby would knock the door. Then Ms Brook would come to the door and say “Good Morning” to her. Daddy said to Mommy several times that he thought Ms Brook was a nice teacher. Ms Brook left around 3:00 pm. Mommy rarely saw her in the afternoon. She saw Ms Daisy most of the time. Gabby liked to look at the pictures of Ms Daisy and Ms Brook on the wall of the front desk when she left the school in the afternoon.

Gabby had two good friends at La Petite: Anthony and Vincent. They spoke Chinese to each other at school. Mommy and Rebecca heard Vincent singing the song in “Happy Goats.”

One day when Mommy, Rebecca and Gabby were leaving the school they saw through the fence Anthony and other kids playing on the playground. Mommy said, "Look, Anthony is there!" Gabby felt offensed and said, “He’s my Anthony!”

Gabby went to Anthony’s birthday party which was at Makutu’s Island. Vincent went, too. But the three of them only played together for a little while. They wanted to stick with their own parents. Gabby wanted to play the token machines instead of the slides. They were still little kids after all.

On Ryann’s birthday party at Little of Gilbert Mommy found out from Anthony's Mommy that Anthony went to the same Day Care as Gabby prior to going to La Petite. He was that “DuDu” because his Chinese name is “Liu Xiaodu.” Vincent’s nick name is “Congcong.” Gabby called them “Liu Xiaodu” and “Congcong” sometimes.

Overall Gabby had a great time at La Petite. Farewell, La Petite!