 Hey everybody, welcome to the Walduk Way. I'm Jessica, and today's video is going to be let's celebrate summer. So I am collaborating again today with Abby from Rooted and Rest, and we are both going to be sharing our kickoff to summer celebration with you. I probably did a little more this year than I would normally do. We don't normally have a specific stop date and a specific start date. We homeschool year round, and we will still be doing some things this summer, and I will be sharing our summer plans with you shortly. But I really felt like, with kind of the dull drums that we've been having lately, and the fact that we're really not gonna be able to do any of the things that we had planned for this summer, that I would go a little bit big and have like a, you know, finished second grade celebration for Emily this year. So my plan is to wrap some of these things and leave some things out for her. My husband stops and got her like a way to go balloon, and we're just gonna kinda have some of her gifts set out for her. And then we're just gonna spend the day probably having a pool party. So I will show you what she's going to be getting for her end of second grade kickoff to summer, and then at the end I will show you kind of everything set up. And make sure you pop over to Abby's channel because you're gonna wanna see what she does for her kids. I'm pretty sure they have like a big, you know, kind of party type of thing. It's just us, so we'll probably just spend the day lounging in the pool. But the first thing that I got, Emily, was something she's been asking for for forever. So I kind of got like things in two different categories. So one category is fun things to enjoy the summer with, and the other category is somewhat educational to kind of keep learning as the summer goes. So I'm gonna show you the fun stuff first. She has been begging me for one of these giant unicorn floats, and I thought, you know what, why not? So I got her one of the giant unicorn floats for the pool. I also got her a new bathing suit from Target. This is the top. It's just like this tribal really cute print. And then just black bottoms. So I got her that bathing suit. I got her a new pair of flip flops from Target as well. And then we got her some dive rings for the pool and a new like water bottle. So I may or may not fill this with candy for our kickoff to summer, I'll see. You guys will see when it's all done, but I just got her a new contigo. It's one where you push the top here and it opens. I love the contigo brand. We've used them for years and this is a new kind of bottle. So I will let you guys know how she likes it. And then for the learning stuff. I got Emily the Kylie Jean eight book set for her summer reading. This like it literally is this little girl. I believe she's in second grade and she loves the color pink and everything is some sort of queen. So the blueberry queen, the dancing queen, drama queen, spelling queen, et cetera. It just kind of screamed Emily to me. There's about a hundred pages in each one. So it says that she has a brother, her two brothers, her one brother is a dog. There wasn't a ton of text per page and cute little pictures. I just thought she would really like this series. So it says, my name is Kylie Jean Carter. Here are some of the things you need to know about me. I live in Texas. My favorite color is pink. I have two brothers, but one of them is a dog. And my number one dream is to be a beauty queen. So that's a little bit about it. It just seemed like a fun series that she would enjoy reading over the summer. And then the next thing I'm going to show you Osmo, play Osmo actually sent us. So we will be doing an unboxing and kind of a little bit of a review on them later, but I put them up because I didn't want to just give them to her. I wanted it to be kind of a celebration and I wanted to save it for the summer. So this is what she'll be using for summer learning. So we have the Osmo genius play kit and then they also sent us PizzaCo and the coding jam. So those are the gifts that she'll be receiving in the morning. We are officially stopping school on, let me tell you guys the date. Our last day of school is going to be Thursday, May 21st. Friday, May 22nd will be our party. I have no idea how long we're actually gonna take off. It may only be a week before we kind of start up in a new summer routine, but we're definitely taking a week to do nothing at least because it has just been crazy and I think we all need and deserve a break. So that is the plan and I will update you guys with our summer plans and I will update you with kind of a year end review soon. So make sure you subscribe for that. All right, you guys, it is all set up. This is what Emily will wake up to in the morning. Her way to go balloon because according to Emily, all it takes is a balloon to make it a celebration. Her giant unicorn float. We won't discuss how long it took me to blow that up. Her Play Osmo, her Kylie Jean books to help prevent summer slide and in the gift bag at all of the rest of her pool gear. Let me know in the comments down below how you celebrate your kids moving to another grade and don't forget to check out Abby's video.