Wacky Got His Award

My son Wacky has been asking me before, when will he get an award or a medal. He's been looking and wearing the medals I won during my former company's inter-office badminton tournament. Then came his recognition in school last March 31st, he's one of the awardees for "Diligence Award" in which overall he is in 10th placed in their section. Last time I posted here he was in 9th place, just dropped a notch but still OK, he still make it and he got what he's been wanting for, a medal of his own.

Before the recognition day, a week ago, his mom texted me as soon as he arrived home. He said he was excited and very happy when he told his mom that he's one of the awardees and will need to go to school the other week for practice. Since knowing that he's an awardee, I accompanied him for 3 days in school to practice in preparation for their recognition day. Been late to work for 3 days because of that.

The day finally arrived for him to receive his medal, but his mom and Cheska needs to go for Cheska's ear checkup, so they leave earlier to hospital while I let Wacky sleep first. The ceremony commenced on 4:30PM, I woke him at around 3:45PM, we took a quick bath, dressed up and immediately leave the house, arrived at school earlier than 4:30PM. It rained on that day, good thing it was just rainshower but still we need to use umbrella especially for kids who might get sick. Anyways, the ceremony moved on and ended up well. I get to walked Wacky to the isle before they sit and wait for their names to be called. Before that, there are some speech and presentations in which Wacky participated in one of them. I think the title of the song is "Welcome to the family", I took a video of it on my mobile phone and when Wacky borrows my phone he would watch that performance almost each day. After that, it's awarding time, it was almost 6PM when they get to be called and received their medals. Good thing his mom was able to witnessed him going up the stage, as I am the one who placed him his medal and shook hands with the medal presentor. It feels good actually as I was never get to go up in stage to receive an award or medal when I was studying. When we finally got down the stage he's been shouting "May award na ako, may award na ako!". After the awarding, we go to Jolibee to eat his all-time favorite, burger, french fries, fried chicken, spaghetti and ketchup, hehehe.

The other day, we went to my parent's place for a small celebration of my brother's college graduation and my to niece having their own respective awards/recognition in their school.