Travis gets emotional at his fifth grade graduation
Yesterday was Travis’s 5th grade graduation ceremony. True to form, it was emotional for me and Kelly. Conn has been the only school he has known. He walked the halls long before he was enrolled there, tagging along with Hallie to and from school. Somehow time flew by and he has just one day left before he’s a middle schooler.
The ceremony included singing, photos from the students as babies, speeches, and plenty of awards. Travis took home a haul of these certificates. Indeed, we laughed when we looked at the “activities” page of the school yearbook and Travis’s face was in all but two pictures!
I held a stoic look yesterday behind the camera, just taking it all in, yet there was one moment that brought a tear to my eye. In the midst of laughing at the slideshow of the students as young and older, Travis paused, took out a tissue, and dabbed the tears in his eyes.
That moment was what the Jim Valvano called a full day: a day when you laugh, think, and cry. Travis made me proud not just with his academic excellence and willingness to help out when he can, but for the way he appreciated the moment before him. The kid has one of the biggest hearts I know and I learn from him each and every day.