Today was your first day of school!! And after all those days of watching your older siblings go to school every morning, you were more than ready to do it, too! When we visited your school last week to meet your teachers (JieJie and Second GuhGaw went to the same nursery school and now you get their same teacher) and see the classroom, you had so much fun playing with the toy kitchen and toy food that you didn't want to leave so you could not wait to go back today. You woke up at 7am--when your usual wake-up time is closer to 9:30/10am--and kept asking me, "Is it time to go? Can we get ready? We go outside now?" Oh man, it was a looooong four and a half hours! Finally, at 11:30am, we left the house and walked to school. We still got there 10 minutes early and you kept saying, "I want to go inside. Can I go inside?" When your teacher finally opened the door, you walked straight in, looking back at me only once with a sweet smile on your face. I watched as you dutifully walked down the hallway and followed the teacher's instructions to wait on a colored circle. Not a tear, not a frown, not even (ahem) a wave or hug goodbye for your mama!
When I picked you up at the end of the day, your teacher said you had had a terrific day and acted as if you'd been there for years. You said you liked it and "colored and played with toys and ate a snack." You also liked the bag of Hershey's Kisses your teacher gave you as a first-day treat and promptly unwrapped and practically inhaled two of them! (You would have eaten the remaining three, also, but I wouldn't let you!)
I'm so glad you had such a good day at school, Kenziebear! And I can't believe you have already started school! I really do feel as if Second GuhGaw was just in the same class but that was actually already four years ago!
Love,
Mom
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